Plonk: A derogatory name for cheap, poor-tasting wine.
Pomace: The mass of skins, pits, and stems left over after fermentation; used to make grappa in Italy and marc in France.
Plonk: Describing low quality wine, British slang for cheap wine.
Punt or kick-up: The negative space on the base of a wine bottle, the divot. There are many possible reasons given for the purpose of this feature, such as: ...
Plonk - British English slang for an inexpensive bottle of wine. The term is thought to originate from the French word for white wine, "blanc".
Pomace - The skins, stalks, and seeds that remain after making wine. Also called marc.
Plonk: British term for simple, pordinary wine. Often used to describe very inexpensive wine with no character.
Plonk
A common slang term for bulk or jug wines.
Plump
A plump wine has low acidity but tastes full and rich due to lots of fruit flavors and glycerol. A plump wine is often delicious, though it may not age well due to its low acidity.
common wine, plonk
Wine which does not belong to a designation of origin or other quality indication or specification of origin.
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With all due respect, my long departed father Frank, used to make some pretty awful plonk.
On the whole, whether considering the en vrac sales of cheap plonk in the past, or the brilliant quality wines that are available today, the Languedoc is red wine country. But here, in Limoux, we have something starkly different.
The personalized label may be a marketing tactic to drive business from corporate and individual consumers, but if the wine was plonk then it wouldn't be worth putting any corporation's or person's name on it.
Don't confuse this winery with Columbia Crest - this is light years ahead of that plonk. At around fifteen bucks, it's a little more expensive than most wines I review, but it is worth every penny.
All grapes, as all wines, grown within any certain appellation are not necessarily superb; neither are they necessarily plonk.
Sure, there will be something on the table with which to make the traditional Champagne toast, but if you don't make it clear to your banquet director that you consider wine to be an integral part of your wedding, you are likely to be served plonk ...
Italian Chianti produced from the Sangiovese grape can be some of the world's best wine and some of the world's most dreadful plonk; stay away from the straw basket-bottles (known as fiascos-the name says it all).
One of the triumvirate of workhorse Midi varieties planted in the last century for mass production plonk, now on its way out.
Arneis (white) ...
Just as French vin de table now often indicates a cutting-edge wine rather than table plonk, simple Riojas may be something new and innovative.
Yet in common with other Communist countries, emphasis was on quantity rather than quality, and the few bottles of Romanian wine you are likely to encounter on shop shelves in the UK will tend to be cheap and a bit plonkish.
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