mouth-filling: Big, rich, concentrated wines that are filled with fruit extract and are high in alcohol and glycerin are wines that tend to texturally fill the mouth. A mouth-filling wine is also a chewy, fleshy, fat wine.
Mouth-filling: Similar to "full-bodied," a wine that impresses itself with weight, texture and flavor on the palate.
MOUTH-FILLING
Wines possessing intense flavors which seem to affect every sensory nerve in the mouth. Usually slightly high glycerin component, slightly low acid.
mouth-filling...
Wine that is big, rich, high in fruit extract and usually high in alcohol on the palate. See also "chewy".
Müller-Thurgau...
fleshy: A wine of full body and rich mouth-filling flavour.
flinty: A flavour not unlike struck match and flint stone that can be found in some white wines, notably Chablis. Very high sulfur dioxide levels may contribute to this aroma.
Full-bodied
Big, mouth-filling in flavor and texture; also high in alcohol.
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Grassy
Aromas or flavors of mown grass. Often found in lesser quality Sauvignon Blanc.
Outstanding harvest for Argentina, producing really fresh, mouth-filling and perfectly ripe wines. More challenging for Chile, though wines are fresh, rich and well-balanced, if a little less intensely flavoured than 2005.
Saint-Emilion and Pomerol ...
Full-bodied: A term relating to the body or mouth-filling capacity of a wine. Additionally, it applies to wines that are robust, intensively flavored, and comparatively high in sugar, or alcohol content.
Another of my personal terms for a wine that breaks the bounds of everyday status in a noisy way: Big, mouth-filling, intense, powerful, memorable. Always meant positively.
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Stoney
Tasting term describing a wine with high acidity coupled with a tactile, mouth-filling flavors as if one has a stone in the mouth. Close term for flinty.
Zinfandel has a mouth-filling, thick berryness that is sometimes described as being jammy or chewy. White zinfandel (not a separate grape variety) is made when zinfandel grapes are fermented without their dark purple skins.
Whereas Pinot Noir brings richness and depth to a wine, and Meunier brings a mouth-filling substance, Chardonnay brings finesse, delicacy and freshness.
 See also: Tannin, Fruit, Region, Wine, Style
  
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