Quaffing Wine - Unpretentious wine that is easy and enjoyable to drink.
Racking - The process whereby clear wine is drawn off its lees and sediment and transferred from one storage container to another.
Quaffer, quaffing wine: A wine that's simple but refreshing, prompting easy swigging rather than thoughtful contemplation. See "gulpable." ...
Typically an inexpensive jug wine, White Zinfandel is a quaffing wine that is sweet, low in alcohol, and soft; making it a popular choice with those who would not otherwise drink wine.
A jovial term for the kind of simple, uncomplicated quaffing wine (see above) that's perfect for washing down spaghetti or pizza. Need not be a negative term, unless you're a wine snob.
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The third most important grape is Dolcetto - the occasional Dolcetto d'Alba can be wonderful, although most are light, quaffing wines.
My top wines: Aldo Conterno and Enzo Boglietti both produce lovely Barbera and Dolcetto.
Sylvaner (Sill-VAH-ner) - German grape (sometimes spelled Silvaner there), considered secondary to Riesling in quality but planted widely as a blending grape. Vinified as a varietal, it makes a light, fruity quaffing wine.
Although it can be vinified as a crisp, fruity quaffing wine, the best, most complex chardonnays, as in Burgundy, are fermented in small oak barrels and put through a secondary, malolactic fermentation, which imparts toasty, ...
Blended with Cabernet to soften the wines from Bordeaux left bank. Made as a varietal wine in California and New York. On the rise and maybe replacing Shiraz in Australia? Made as light everyday quaffing wine in Northeastern Italy.
It's also a fine foil for spicy foods, such as hot wings and Asian cuisine. A good quaffing wine - something you don't have to think about, yet so enjoyable you will want to remember the name and label to buy it again.
At best this nondescript Italian white is an easy-quaffing wine that doesn't cause much distraction. In the country of Versace, Ferragamo, Lamborghini, the Colosseum, and Michelangelo, that alone is quite a distinction.
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