Powerful
A tasting term synonym for brawny.
Press wine
During the winemaking process the wine must be taken from the grape solids - pips, skins, pulp and stalks.
Powerful
A descriptor that indicates an impression of strength and intensity.
Premiere
In methode Champenoise, refers to the first batch or press juices collected after the free-run juice.
Powerful
Usually applied to robust red wines of great substance, such as a Châteauneauf-du-Pape, or to white wines with full, assertive bouquet, such as a big white Burgundy.
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Powerful: High in alcohol, tannin and/or extract, often with assertive flavors.
Powerful High level of alcohol or extract.
Residual sugar (RS) The amount of unfermented sugar left in a wine after fermentation.
Rich Fruit flavour, alcohol, extract and apparent sweetness.
Powerful: Powerful describes a wine with lots of very easy to discern flavour and alcohol.
Proof: The measure of the degree of alcohol by volume present in a wine is called proof.
POWERFUL
Close to being a synonym for BRAWNY.
PRICKLY
A wine with slight residual gas in it. Usually attractive in light young whites, but in reds it is often a sign of refermentation in the bottle or bottling of the wine prematurely.
POWERFUL
Close to being a synonym for BRAWNY.
PREMIER CRU
French for 'first growth;' a high-quality vineyard but one not as good as Grand Cru.
Powerful, hearty red wine from northeastern Italy.
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Powerful, juicy wines with concentrated, ripe fruit and silky tannins
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Powerful. Describes a wine of intensity and strength.
Premier cru. a first growth-the highest quality vineyard. Although in Burgundy, Grand crus rank higher.
Pretty. Describes a wine of delicacy and finesse.
POWERFUL
Close to being a synonym for BRAWNY.
PRUNEY
Overripe, sun-dried grapes can induce an undesirable pungent quality into table wines; sometimes compared to "the taste of dried prunes".
Big-Powerful in aroma and flavor; full-bodied.
Bitter-Usually considered a fault in but characteristic of such wines as Amarone and certain other Italian reds.
Big: Powerful in flavours or bouquet.
Bite: A marked degree of acidity or tannin. An acid grip in the finish should be more like a zestful tang and is tolerable only in a rich, full-bodied wine.
Having a powerful, assertive smell linked to a high level of volatile acidity. Rarely used in a complimentary way.
Raisiny
Having the taste of raisins from ultra-ripe or overripe grapes. Can be pleasant in small doses in some wines.
Riesling has a powerful and distinctive floral and apple-like aroma that frequently mixes in mineral elements from its vineyard source and is often described as "racy.
Big
A wine powerful in aroma and flavor; full-bodied.
Blanc
The French word for white.
Weighty
Strong, powerful, full-bodied, forceful.
Whole-bunch fermentation
Occasionally used and the stems can assist in drainage but increased tannins from the stems can be problematic.
Pungent:Having a powerful, assertive smell linked to a high level of volatile acidity.
(see also HARSH). Powerful, attack aroma. Usually denotes high level of acidity, alcohol and/or other flavor faults.
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Strong
Big and powerful, usually with high alcohol content.
Structure
A wine's composition.
intenseUsed to describe wines that express their character powerfully. isinglassA transparent gelatin prepared from the air bladder of the sturgeon and certain other fishes and used as a clarifying agent.
Powerful, alcoholic, but well balanced and with a potential for further development.
Bitter. Acrid. Generally a fault, although in some Italian reds bitterness is considered normal and desirable.
Body.
When young, they are powerful alcoholic fruity wines with strong tannins. With age they mellow, increasing in complexity and with softening tannins. Good vintage ports improve with bottle age.
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You could find a round, fruit-forward, powerful, and easy-drinking Cab with some semblance of profundity that cost less than ten bucks. Then, others discovered these Cabs, demand grew, and prices climbed.
As Dendrites, "he of the trees", he is a powerful fertility god. Dithyrambos ("he of the double door") is sometimes used to refer to him or to solemn songs sung to him at festivals; the name refers to his premature birth.
The history of the Clos de Vougeot, and thus of Vougeot the commune, runs back to the days of the Abbaye de Cluny, a powerful and wealthy ecclesiastical institution already mentioned several times in this Burgundy guide.
In the commune of Castiglione Falletto, the wines are more powerful and concentrated with the potential for finesse. Nebbiolo grown in Monforte has a firm tannic structure and the most potential for aging.
Malbec (ripe berries, powerful fruity flavors)
This grape variety has been an important blending partner in Bordeaux along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and others.
Potent: Intense and powerful.
Press Wine (or Pressing): The juice extracted under pressure after pressing for white wines and after fermentation for reds.
The Sangiovese Grosso clone Brunello variety is used for the dark red, traditionally powerful and slow-maturing "Brunello di Montalcino" wine.
Grapes are known to be high in beneficial phytochemicals such as flavanoid and reservatrol which act as powerful antioxidants. These natural chemicals also help combat the free radicals that are thought to contribute to cellular degeneration.
Instead it means that it has powerful flavors and often has acidity that helps make those flavors stick out powerfully. So you can have a light-bodied wine, like a German Kabinett Riesling, which has intense flavors.
Robust: A strong, powerful wine (usually red).
Rose: A pink wine produced from grape juice or must from which the grape skins have been removed before fermentation is complete.
Rough: An immature wine which is not smooth in taste.
Cabernet Sauvignon: A powerful, tannic red grape of noble heritage; the base grape for many red Bordeaux and most of the best red wines from California, Washington, Chile and South Africa; capable of aging for decades.
POTENT: Intense and powerful.
PRIVATE RESERVE: This description, along with Reserve, once stood for the best wines a winery produced. Some care need be taken when buying wine with this designation as it has no legal definition.
Amplio (big) A full bodied, powerful wine with complex nuances and well defined components.
Andana A group of wine casks stacked on top of each other, usually to a height of five tiers.
Potent: Describes a strong, intense, powerful wine.
Robust: Describes a full-bodied, intense and vigorous wine; possibly inflated.
Round: Describes a well-balanced wine in fruit, tannins and body.
Big: Describes a wine with powerful flavor. (Tasting term)
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Believed to resemble parts of both the male and female anatomy, in the Aztec culture, avocados were considered so powerful that village maidens were forbidden to set foot outside while the fruit was being gathered.
The Châteauneuf du Pape is thick, harsh, powerful and richly colored. It is elaborated with 13 authorized and controlled grape-varieties among which , and .
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Powerful, thick, strong reds with leathery characteristics, but also lighter, flat, soft wines from the irrigated regions.
Potent:
Strong, Intense, Powerful ( Got It ? )
Round:
Describes a wine
that has a good balance of fruit and tannins,
with good body as well.
Can either be a positive or a negative. In a positive sense it can denote powerful characters of clean, rich and hearty soil, as in 'an earthy complexity', but it can also describe wines that are too dense and sometimes dirty.
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Flavour & Character
Can produce powerful wines of excellent quality and elegance. Flavour hints include green apple, lime, apricot and honey.
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In the past, presses were less powerful and multiple pressings were necessary for full extraction. A somewhat archaic term since currently the majority of olive oil is produced in the first pressing.
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They are big, deeply coloured and powerful, with enough tannins and structure to be long lived. Brunello di Montalcino wines have one of the longest ageing requirements in Italy, three - and sometimes four - years, two of which must be in wood.
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Ausas opened bottles of the 2000 Unico, which will be released this year, and also the latest release of Especial, combining the 1991 vintage "for aroma," 1994 "for power" and 1995 "for quality of finish." Both were elegant-big and powerful, ...
That quality in a wine that makes your mouth feel slightly dry and puckery. Astringency is related to tannin (see entry). A small amount of astringency is expected in some wines, especially young red wines made from powerful varieties such as ...
Qualifier of a coloured, generous, powerful wine and at the same time balanced.
RIESLING
White Type of vine, cultivated in Alsace, giving wines of a great distinction.
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Mount Veeder is both a winery and an appellation - it is an official AVA within Napa Valley, consisting of about 25 square miles along a steep mountainside in the Mayacamas Mountains. The area is rich with volcanic soil and tends to produce powerful, ...
Italian wine tends to have substantial extract. Excessive extract leads to an overly powerful, not so great tasting wine.
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Powerful A wine with a high level of alcohol that is not excessively alcoholic.[3]
Prickly A wine with some slight residual carbonic gas, though not necessarily to the point of the wine being considered a sparkling wine.
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