Resinous: Resin aroma, generally desirable.
Rich: Full-bodied wine with good flavor and bouquet.
Robust: A strong, powerful wine (usually red).
Resinous: Resin aroma (incense, cedar, pine, camphor, etc.) which may be cause by the variety, the soil or the breeding of the wine. It is a desirable aroma.
Limes dominate the aroma, framed by a sharp, almost resinous "piney" scent, a youthful Riesling character that's likely to evolve with time into the odd but not unpleasant "petrol" minerality that's typical of the variety.
For example, it should be possible for something to smell fruity, putrid, resinous, and burned, but impossible to have a smell that is putrid, spicy, and resinous. The combinations are interesting to plot and contemplate.
Use tools or containers made out of resinous wood.
Forget to stir a must twice a day.
Use a lot of sugar.
Resinous Eucalyptus flavors tend to appear in regions that are habitats for the eucalyptus tree, such as California's Napa and Sonoma valleys and parts of Australia, ...
Resin: the smell, predominating in Greek Retsinas, caused by the addition of small amounts of resin to the fermentation. Tavel rosés and American Grenache-based rosés display a greater or lesser degree of resinous odors, ...
Finally Oregon oak is very toasty, resinous, spicy and caramel like, but can impart a degree of harshness due to the pick-up of hard tannins. I sensed a general feeling of disdain for Oregon oak amongst American coopers and winemakers.
Another wine so complex that it defies easy description, but I often find fresh apples, sometimes pleasantly resinous notes like pine, ...
geographer who lived in the last years of the first century BC - who wrote in his book about geography «Ligurians consume milk and beverages made of barley, they buy at Genoa oil and wine and the small quantity of wine they make is resinous and ...
 See also: Wine, Full, Sweet, Fruit, Aroma
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