Mellow
Having minimal tannins for a smooth flavor and mouthfeel.
MELON DE BOURGOGNE
Another name for the Muscadet de Bourgogne grape..
mellow: A term used to describe mature wine that has soft tannins and good balance.
Mellow: Smooth and soft, with no harshness.
Merlot: A lauded red grape popular in Bordeaux and throughout the world; large amounts of Merlot exist in Italy, the United States, South America and elsewhere.
Mellow
Smooth and soft, with no harshness.
Moldy
Wines with the smell of mold or rot, usually from grapes affected by rot or from old moldy casks used for aging.
Mellow
Mature and soft, with no edge of harshness.
Moldy
Tasting of mold or rot. This fault occurs in wine that has been made from grapes attacked by gray rot, or in wine kept in casks that have been allowed to deteriorate.
Mellow
Smooth and soft, with no harshness.
Merlot
Less tannic with lower acidity than Cabernet Sauvignon, this grape makes reds that are often rounded and smooth textured. Aromas can be plums, hay, berries, and chocolate.
Mellow: a soft, smooth, often sweet-edged wine a "jug red" and a well-aged Cabernet-Sauvignon or Zinfandel may all be mellow.
Mellow
A wine adjective describing a low-acid wine that is smooth and soft, rather rough around the edges. Well-made Merlot tends to be a mellow red wine.
Mellow
Smooth and soft, with no harshness.
Merlot
Merlot became a brand name wine in the 1980s because of its smooth, rich, easy-drinking flavors and texture.
MELLOW
Soft, smooth without harshness.
MERCAPTANS
An unpleasant, rubbery smell of sulfur. This is mainly encountered in very old white wines.
Mellow; ranges from medium bodied to heavier, full bodied Australian examples.
Notes
King of the ''Noble'' grapes, famous for its use in Bordeaux Claret.
Mellow, semisoft cheese made from goat's milk. A German cheese.
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Mellow
Smooth, soft and well matured wine with no harshness.
Mouldy
Wines with the smell of mould or rot. Usually from grapes affected by rot or from old mouldy casks used for aging.
A mellow red wine and a smooth, silky texture that will leave no acidity on the palate.
Vigorous
Healthy, lively, firm, and youthful. Opposite of insipid and flabby.
Soft
Mellow, well-rounded, mature tannins and little evidence of acidity
Spicy
Exotic fruit and spice flavors in whites, particularly Gewürztraminer, but also a peppery or cinnamony clovey perfume in some reds ...
Tannin also mellows with time, so high tannic wines are often aged. Formerly, many producers would sell a high tannic wine expecting the purchaser to allow it to age.
A hard, strong structure in a fine wine that will take many years to mellow and soften. A metallic taste, reminiscent of iron, also appears as a nuance in some wines.
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AGGRESSIVE - A young wine that has not yet mellowed as perhaps it should have, or a wine can be aggressively acidic, tannic, etc.
Mellow A wine with a soft texture that is nearing the peak of its maturity.
Midpalate A tasting term for the feel and taste of a wine when held in the mouth.
The producer describes this as "our version of a Cotes du Rhone blend," and it does a good job of emulating the French style, perhaps a bit more fruit-forward and slightly mellower in the acid department, ...
2 Oxidization Decanting facilitates oxidization of the wine, turning a vigorous young red wine more mellow and round. 3 Bouquet 4 Sediment It helps the development of the aroma, bringing out the bouquet of the wine.
It's a little sharp immediately out of the bottle, so let it sit and evolve for 10-15 minutes and you will be rewarded with a smoother texture and more mellowed flavor.
They are not as high in alcohol as Pinot Noirs from the US, nor do they have the ripe fruit and mellow tannins at a young age. Some people prefer the American style more than the Burgundian, but it is all a matter of taste.
Much of the characteristic flavor of Madeira is due to this practice, which hastens the mellowing of the wine and also tends to check secondary fermentation inasmuch as it is, in effect, a mild kind of pasteurization.
A more mellow Merlot for those who prefer their fruit forward and a Cab if that's your standard palate preference will also give the meat a hand-up.
Because it makes a smooth and mellow red wine, it has become an "entry" wine for new red-wine drinkers, especially those inspired by recent publicity about red wine's purported benefits for cardiovascular health.
Some hail fell in an otherwise unexceptional spring, which was followed by a warm, mellow June, which resulted in the development of an abundant crop. However, poor weather in July and August affected the ripening of the grapes.
Soft and mellow with a full body, Oloroso sherry is characterized by walnut flavours. Pure Olorosos are dry on the palate, but most Oloroso sherry is sweetened by the addition of Pedro Ximenez wine to create Medium Sweet, Cream and Brown sherry.
Glycerol a form of alcohol and the constituent of the wine which adds mellowness. Grafting joining together two different plants so they grow together as one.
Mature: Usually applied to attractive, older wines with mellow flavour and good colour.
Noble rot: A fungal infection (botrytis cinerea) that attacks ripe grapes and which helps make some of the great sweet wines.
A relatively full red wine with tannin and a fixed acid content can develop complexity subtlety and smooth mellowness with age.
Wine acids also affect the actual color of the wine. In red wine, the color signifying the most acidity is bright red. As the color mellows to purple then bluish tones, the acidity mellows with it.
By the time it is 40 years old, it has mellowed from a hot plum like flavor, to a soft nutty taste, full of complexity. As the port continues to age, it starts to loose some of its strength and intensity, but gains complexity and character.
On the other hand white wines present a larger variety of tastes: very dry, dry, semi-dry, mellow, syrupy, petillant, sparkling, madeirized...
White wine can be drunk on any occasion: before, with or after a meal, and even between meals.
Moelleux
French term which translates as 'mellow', but in the context of wine means sweet or medium sweet. You'll often find this term on bottles from the Loire.
Many wines benefit from decanting (pouring into a special bottle with a wide surface area), which exposes the wine to more air and can act to mellow tannins and balance flavors.
Wooden barrels also allow a degree of oxidation that can mellow a wine. Some loss occurs through evaporation and wine in barrels, even when kept in a relatively humid environment, must be topped occasionally with more wine.
At quite a few new stores, such as Pour in New York City, wine is grouped by taste, such as "Bright," "Plush" and "Mellow." At others, such as Vino Vino in New York, wine is arranged by weight, from lightest-tasting to heaviest.
A wine-making process in which the wine is put through a special fermentation that converts its malic acid into lactic acid. The result is a soft, mellower wine that some wine lovers find "flabby" but that's very popular in the marketplace.
Arrange the fruit on a platter as an appetizer or even an after-dinner refreshment. You can also add a mellow cheese to the platter. Make sure the cheese does not overpower either the melons or the wine.
Great red wines that can be aged for decades typically are very tannic. It is the tannins that break down over the course of the bottle's life to mellow the wine and allow the wine to incorporate over the years.
Producer of the finest dry whites, full bodied, richly flavoured and capable of great complexity. Can be fresh and minerally, nutty and mellow, or lively and tropical.
SCHIAVA:
Minor grape found in the Trentino region of Italy. Used for making full-bodied fruity, mellow red wines best served chilled and considered good value in better vintage years.
If you think the wine (especially young red wine) is too astringent, consider that it might improve and mellow or "open up" with age. Or is the wine ready to drink now? What kinds of food might go nicely with this wine?
Tannin acts as a preservative and is thus an important component if a wine is to be aged over a long period. Tannins are frequently harsh in a young wine, but gradually mellow or dissipate as the wine ages in the bottle.
When ripe and subject to a little judicious oak ageing, the Cabernet Sauvignon mellows into an attractive, alluring and very complex wine. Even in the New World it has a tendency to outlive a pure Shiraz for example.
Red varietals run from brickish red and nearly transparent (may be older, mellow) to deep opaque bluish-purple (expect young, brash, tannic).
and acid content, which is then balanced out as the grapes cool under night temperatures. Appellations situated at high altitudes are particularly prone to affectation by the temperature variation. A diurnal shift often lends a favorable, mellow and ...
A variant found in the Trentino-Aldo region of Italy is known as Schiava Gentile and is locally used for making full-bodied fruity, mellow red wines best served chilled and considered good value in better vintage years.
MOELLEUX (MELLOW)
Qualifier generally applying to soft white wines being located between the dry ones and the liqueur-like themselves ones. Also says itself, with tasting, of one at the same time fatty and not very acid wine.
MONDEUSE ...
Barrel aging can make a wine mellower, for example softening its tannins. Excessive oak aging, noted often with Chardonnays, can ruin a wine's taste. As might be expected, American oak is more powerful and less subtle than French oak.
The process of aging wine in bulk or bottles to achieve smooth the acidity and mellow harsh tannins, while creating more complexity.
Mature
Wine which has reached its optimum point during aging. It is neither too young nor too old.
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