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Racy A wine with noticeable acidity that is well balanced with the other components of the wine.
Reticent A wine that is not exhibiting much aroma or bouquet characteristics perhaps due to its youth.

 


Racy
A light wine of quality with lively acidity
Smoky
Many wines do have a smoky taste, especially when slightly charred oak barrels have been used for maturation ...

Racy: A particularly approving synonym for "acidic," this one suggesting a wine with a tart-crisp acidic flavor well balanced by fruit in a style that's particularly refreshing.

RACY
Sharp acidity usually found in young white wine (i.e. Italian Pinot Grigio, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc) ...

Racy:A tasting term referring to a style, rather than a smell or taste, generally marked by lively acidity and light juiciness.
Raisiny:Having the taste of raisins from ultra-ripe or overripe grapes. Can be pleasant in small doses in some wines.

And it was a very typical Pouilly-Fume: herbaceous, smoky, and green fruit aromas and flavors, with distinct stony mineral, racy acidity.

Besides for the price of a Grange you can probably get a case of Penfolds' tasty and racy Bin 127 Coonawarra or Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz.

Wellington, New Zealand
Quite racy wines, fragrant and fresh with lime-like hints.
Canberra, Australia
Fine, tasty, mildy floral wines with a tendency to pineapply fruitiness. Mostly dry, they do age well.

Grüner Veltliner: A white grape popular in Austria that makes lean, fruity, racy wines.
Haut: A French word meaning "high." It applies to quality as well as altitude.
Hectare: A metric measure equal to 10,000 square meters or 2.47 acres.

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.

I enjoyed its tropical fruit flavours and figgy richness that was beautifully balanced by fine, racy acidity.

Excellent Austrian grape, producing light but crisp and racy dry white wines.
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At best, good wines - but not great with firm to racy acidity.
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ANDREA'S WINE NOTES: The racy, vegetal flavor of the Sauvignon Blanc grape becomes rich and creamy when blended with the Semillon grape and barrel-fermented.

This site lies on the next south-facing slope to the north of Vaillons and is an excellent source of fresh wines with racy acidity.

Growers in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada, have found that the Weiss 21-B clone gives a very good Upper Mosel style of wine with racy acidity and delicate but firm fruit. Clone 239 gives a fruitier, more Rhine-like wine than the Weiss.

Chenin blanc-based whites, often with *botrytis), Samur, Bourgueil (lean, herbaceous reds), Chinon (leafy, raspberry-laced reds), Vouvray (Chenin blanc-based whites, ranging from bone dry to sweet and *botrytised), Touraine (racy, ...

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