Pale cream sherry is a form of cream sherry made from fino rather than oloroso.
Medium sherry is a sweetened amontillado, marketed as 'medium dry' and less sweet than cream sherries.
Cream sherry is a sweetened oloroso.
Pale Cortado
This is actually a deviant Amontillado that verges on an Oloroso type. Pale Cortados are rare and occur as a fluke of nature.
Pale: Describes wine of low intensity.
Palo Cortado: Scarce wine which is a cross between an the perfum of amontillado and the taste of oloroso.
Piguant: The sharp taste found in a light wine.
Pale
Used to describe wines with less colour than similar-styled wines.
Peach
Specific fruit description, often found in Riesling or Gewurztraminer and sometimes in dessert wines.
Pale: Used to describe wines of low chromatic intensity.
Pale Cream: A sweet wine with the same color as a fino.
Pale Dry: A type of fino wine.
Pale
Normally used to focus a wine's color description, as in "pale gold" or "pale garnet."
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This pale straw to light gold colored wine has become a star in Oregon. It now replaces Chardonnay as their premier white wine, proving to be a nice compliment to their salmon as well as oysters.
Gray or pale rosé wine
The grapes are pressed as soon as they arrive in the cellar. It allows a quicker diffusion of the color in the must.
Crema
The pale brown foam that covers the surface of a well-brewed cup of espresso and helps to retain the coffee's intensity.
Cucuta
A Colombian-grown coffee that is usually shipped through Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Color is a pale orange - more like cooked salmon than pink. Soft, fruity nose of citrus and a hint of raspberry. Pretty good mousse, with persistent medium-sized bubbles.
Fino: A pale coloured, dry and light bodied style of sherry that displays flor characters.
firm: A wine with strong tannins.
flabby: A wine that lacks acidity and therefore appears dull and lifeless on the palate.
Fino - Finos are pale, light, and without any sweetness. Serve finos cold and refrigerate after opening. The Harveys web site claims that fino sherry is consumed in Spain much like Chardonnay is in the US.
Gris: A very pale rosé color.
Grüner Veltliner: A white grape popular in Austria that makes lean, fruity, racy wines.
Half-bottle (demiboite): Champagne or wine bottle with 0.375-liter capacity.
Verdicchio yields a pale, straw-colored wine of good acidic balance offering subtle, crisp, clean white fruit flavors and aromas offset by nuances of citrus, almonds and tree blossoms, finishing on a slight bitter note.
Synonyms
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chiarettoA light, pale red Italian wine. cinquième cruA French term meaning fifth growth, a Médoc category specified in the Classification of 1855. ClaretTraditional term for the wine of Bordeaux.
Is it dark crimson, or a pale red with a slightly golden tint? Remember that as reds age, they become lighter, and when a white wine ages it becomes darker.
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Fino - with refined and complex aromas, fino has a pale color, strong and dry taste, it is considered the most typical style of Jerez. Even this style depends on the development of flor and it is more robust and strong than Manzanilla.
They also turn a lovely pale amber from the extended wood contact. Tawny Ports may be labeled as 10 years, 20 years, 30 years and 40 years, depending on how long they were aged in wood. The best deals are the 20-year-olds (that's Port, not people).
However, pale colored Syrah or Cabernet Sauvignon is another matter, and your experience will guide you. Older reds begin to take on tawny/orange hues, but these colors should not be expected in young reds.
This doesn't mean you have to take notes or hold it up to a piece of white paper and split hairs about whether it's actually pale straw or light yellow, cherry red or brick. Just take a second to notice-does it look inviting? Refreshing? Thin? Thick?
Young white wines range in hue from a pale straw-yellow to a rich amber.
Nevertheless this was more of a Champagne evolution than a revolution, and it was only during the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries that the sparkling wines slowly came to dominate, gradually edging out the pale and rather delicate red ...
Intensity: is the color pale or deep?
Color: hold the glass at an angle against a white background (table cloth or sheet of paper) and assess the color in the middle of the bowl of the glass and at the rim.
The colour of your white wine could range between pale straw and rich golden yellow, depending on its age, its sweetness, its degree of oakiness and, of course, the grape variety from which it was made.
The colour will vary from a very pale yellow with a slightly green and often brilliant tinge when young and from a cool region developing with age into a golden, honey-coloured sometimes viscous wine.
White varietal wines may appear from very pale greenish and brightly clear (suspect youth and bone dryness) to deep golden brownish and approaching translucence (probably well-aged, possibly nectar-like).
Sauvignon Blanc: Recent arrival from France. Pale yellow; aromas of eucalyptus, grass, mango, apples.
Sémillon: Long history in Argentina; pale gold to straw; light citrus with aromas of peach, apricot.
The full name is Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains and the berries are quite small and round, but not always white. The spectrum includes pale green, pale yellow, golden, pink, red, brown, and black berries.
They may be different in colour, ranging from pale green to dark purple/blue, almost black, have skins of varying thickness, and diverse chemical compositions.
Sherries, of course, also come in non-dessert forms; Fino is pale and bone-dry, and makes an excellent accompaniment to seafood; ...
As a visual description, very pale, clear as water. As a flavor description, lacking in flavor, weak.
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White Wines: White wines range from pale green to yellow to deep golden brown and become more golden as they age.
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Probably best known in export markets as a semi-sweet pale red with slight effervescence.
Store and serve your beer at the proper temperature. The proper temperature varies by beer type. 45 degrees Fahrenheit for pale lagers, 46 degrees for wheat beers, and 48 degrees for dark lagers (see Resources for more beer types).
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Vin Gris
An old French term that describes 'grey' wines that are in fact very pale rosés.
Vine
The name of the plant that produces the grape.
Blanc de Noirs:"White from blacks," meaning a white wine made of red or black grapes, where the juice is squeezed from the grapes and fermented without skin contact. The wines can have a pale pink hue.
Most wines are either red or white wines. Even "white zinfandel" is simply a pale wine made from the red Zinfandel grapes. There are only a few situations where winemakers actually do mix together red grapes and white grapes to make a wine.
When blended with Tempranillo improves many Riojas. In the warmer regions of California the Grenache grape produces pale red wines that are mainly useful for blends. Older vines can yield varietals often as a rosé.
If it's a red wine is the color maroon, purple, ruby, garnet, red, brick or even brownish? If it's a white wine is it clear, pale yellow, straw-like, light green, golden, amber or brown in appearance?
Blush Wines are made with red grapes, but the juice has had a very brief contact with the grape skins, which produces pale pink wines.
White of blacks, white wine made of red or black grapes, where the juice is squeezed from the grapes and fermented without skin contact. The wines can have a pale pink hue. E.G., e.g., Champagne that is made from Pinot Noir or Pinot Meunier.
FLOR: Sherry yeast, under some conditions will form a wrinkled skin consisting of yeast on top of sherry causing it to develop strong sherry flavour and to become dry and pale.
Although this word was originally the equivalent of claret, i.e., red wines of weak colour, often made from a mixture of red and white grapes, in La Rioja, clarete is used for a particular type of rosé which has an extremely pale, "onion skin" colour.
GAMBA DI PERNICE: Red-wine variety grown on very limited acreage in Piedmonte region of Italy. Used to make a pale red wine with mildly spicy and vegetal flavors. (No other details as yet).
The wine, now exposed to air, is aged an additional period without the flor cover, gaining body and, through oxidation, a nutty aroma and flavour (like hazelnuts) and turning from pale straw colour to amber.
More color in a white wine usually indicates more flavor and age, although a brown wine may have gone bad. Where as time improves many red wines, it ruins most white wines. Red wines are not just red; they range from a pale red to a deep brown red, ...
In the warmer regions of California the Grenache grape tends to produce pale red wines that are mainly useful for blends. Older vines give juice that produces a creditable varietal.
 See also: Wine, White, Aroma, Grape, Fruit
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