Opaque
Visual description, too dark to see through. Dense-looking; locking clarity and transparency.
Open
Yielding all its qualities. A fine wine, aged to the right degree, may be said to have opened out.
Opaque: Visual description, too dark to see through.
Organic: Broad, general term for "earthy," "forest floor," "cheesy," "leather," "barnyard" and related aromas and flavors.
This opaque wine is an inky, shiny patent-leather black color almost all the way to the dark-garnet edge. Earthy black-fruit aromas blend ripe plums with smoke and raw beef.
Color is still fairly opaque at the center, a dark jelly-like purple, and is bright magenta at the rim. However, in the mouth it is more mature, giving opulent rich ripe jammy blackberry and plum flavors, as well as a grape jam flavor.
Is the wine watery or dark, translucent or opaque, dull or brilliant, cloudy or clear? Can you see sediment? Tilt your glass a bit, give it a little swirl - look again, is there sediment, bits of cork or any other floaters?
Tilting the glass over an opaque white surface and observing the liquid's edge is the best way to judge hue and clarity.
The berries are medium-sized, usually round, transparent but becoming opaque on maturity and golden yellow in colour with reddish spots. They ripen early and dry out readily but are very often left to develop a high sugar concentration.
Cake glazes include water icing (confectioners' sugar mixed with liquid), melted chocolate (combined with cream, butter and/or sugar syrup), fondant (a thick shiny opaque icing), or caramel. Tart glazes include sieved jam, preserves, or jelly.
The more concentrated and opaque a wine's color, the higher its intensity. Common descriptors for color intensity are pale, medium or dark.
Young white wines are often pale in color while older white wines take on a color of straw or can even be golden. Young red wines can be dark and opaque purple while older red wines can take on a red brick or even amber hue, ...
Opaque. Dense-looking; locking clarity and transparency.
Open. Yielding all its qualities. A fine wine, aged to the right degree, may be said to have opened out.
Oxidized.
 See also: Flavor, Wine, Aroma, Fruit, Red
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