Ripe
See Mature.
RIVANER
Another name for the Muller-Thurgau grape widely grown in Luxembourg.
Ripe
Perfectly fruity and well balanced wines made out of fully developed mature grapes.
Robust
Tasting term describing brawny and vigorous scaled wines.
Ripe: Suggesting aromas and flavors of thoroughly mature grapes. Ripe wines generally display richer texture and a stronger impression of fruit than wines with technically similar levels of sweetness made from less mature grapes.
Ripe
Full; tasting of ripe fruit, without a trace of greenness.
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Ripe
Intense, mature fruit.
Robust
Full-bodied, intense, and powerful.
Ripe-Mature, fully ripe fruit.
Robust-Full-bodied, powerful, heady.
Rough-Harsh edges, biting, unpleasant.
Ripe
Fully mature, rich and full of fruit flavor.
Robust
Strong, concentrated and full-bodied; well balanced.
Ripe: General term for the overall impression of fruit in a wine; a favorable description for a wine in good balance, stops a bit short of "juicy," "jammy" and similar terms describing wines in which fruit is dominant.
Ripe
A mature wine that's ready to drink. If used to describe the grapes, this term means they were picked at sweet full maturity and richness.
Robust
Full-bodied, powerful, heady.
RIPE
Favorable adjective bestowed when the varietal characteristics of the grape are optimally present in a well balanced wine. Ripe-tasting wines tend toward being slightly more fruity and sweet than otherwise normal wines.
Ripe style of Pinot Noir
Weather Conditions
The year started with a short crop load due to poor weather at set, extreme temperatures the prior vintage, and vineyard growth irregularities in the Willamette Valley, ...
Ripe Riesling grapes
Riesling is a white wine grape variety grown historically in Alsace (France), Austria, Germany, and northern Italy.
Ripe aromas of apple, pear, herb, and a hint of ginger. Similar fruit on the palate - ripe pear, peach, apple. Nice citrus flavor as well. Texture is very smooth, almost creamy. Attractive, zesty acidity makes this a good food wine.
Ripe pear, pineapple, papaya and fig dominate the palate. Nose is lemon and other citrus blossom; also caramel, honey and butterscotch. Think rich, think yummy.
Ripe vine shoot.
Lees :
Deposit which forms in the vats after fermentation or storage of the wine, forced from impurities, yeast, tartar and residual matter from the crop.
ripe or ready to eat, the perfect moment for eating a cheese or fruit. Also, cooked .
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Ripe and gooey, dense with delicious cherry pie, blackberry and licorice flavors that persist through a long, glorious finish. Has depth and presence, a real candidate for triumph after long-term ... more ...
Ripe:The stage at which the grapes' many components have reached maturity. As a grape ripens, sugar content increases and acidity decreases.
5 ripe red plums
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Wash and dry the plums, remove the stones, and place the fruit in a small saucepan with the brown sugar and vinegar. Cook on high heat for three minutes. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
The ripe semillon berry is a rich yellow color at maturity, although increasing sun exposure may turn it amber-pink. In warmer climates, there is always danger of sunburn and raisining.
From ripe grapes of the Petit rouge you get a wine red color purple load when young, tending to garnet with the evolution of aging, the flavor opens up a range of intense vinous notes mixed with cherry, raspberry and other berries , ...
Organic, ripe natural cheese aromas, almost always a flaw, typically indicating filthy wine making and an unwanted secondary fermentation in the bottle.
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Malbec (ripe berries, powerful fruity flavors)
This grape variety has been an important blending partner in Bordeaux along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and others.
Madura (ripe) Mature, fully developed grapes.
Manchado (literally 'stained') A term describing blanco wines which are slightly pink in colour due to having been stored in tanks that have previously contained tinto wine.
Hard Cheese - Ripe Gruyère
Alsace Pinot Gris / Vernaccia / Beaujolais / Fino or Amontillado Sherry
Blue Cheese - Gorgonzola, Dolcelatte, Bleu de Bresse ...
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Stewed Over-ripe.
Strong Powerful, alcoholic.
Structure Make up of a wine, refers to the acid, tannin, alcohol, balance.
thick
Rich, ripe, concentrated wines that are low in acidity are often said to be thick.
thin
A synonym for shallow; it is an undesirable characteristic for a wine to be thin, meaning that it is watery, lacking in body, and just diluted.
austere:Term used for wines that have low levels of ripe fruit flavours and excessive acidity and/or tannins. The term usually describes lighter bodied, acidic white wines with subtle flavours.
Also wines from over-ripe grapes
Balanced
A wine in which acidity, sweetness, tannin and flavor are all in perfect harmony. Balance ...
The term is also used to describe the prune-like flavor of a wine made from excessively ripe grapes grown in an unusually hot summer.
Corky. A fault caused by an improperly cured cork, which makes the affected wine emit a disagreeable smell.
As indicated above, however, in ripe years this category may well be produced from grapes that are easily of Spätlese quality.
Auslese - (literally selected harvest) wines produced with very ripe grapes whose bunches have been manually selected in the vineyard before harvesting.
Transformation undergone by the grape when it grows rich out of sugar and loses part of its acidity to become ripe.
MAUZAC
White Type of vine cultivated in particular in the Toulouse South and Languedoc, giving a fine wine but weak guard.
MELON ...
Longitudinal section of the almost ripe ovary, dorsal view; at the top the stigma and short joined marcescent styles; below, the carpels; the median line marking the partition of the reflex edges, ...
It's almost harvest time, and your vines have lovely healthy bunches of ripe white grapes hanging off them.
The region is so cold that the Riesling grape only gets ripe enough to make fine wines a few years out of a decade. The rest of the time the wines go to make Sekt, the German sparkling wine, which like all sparkling wines starts with an acidic base.
Shiraz is the Australian name for Syrah and has become synonymous with a different style of wine to that produced in France - to such an extent that Southern French 'varietals' may now display Shiraz to indicate a rich, ripe, ...
That doesn't mean they might not be wonderful in all sorts of ways, but the kind of sweet, ripe fruit that they had in their youth might now just be a comet that flashes quickly.
If during the fermentation process the grapes were not quite ripe enough, sugar may be added to the must to increase alcohol levels in the final product, this addition is referred to as "enrichment".
If a wine has ripe, fruity flavors, it can often be described as sweet. In this context it does not mean that it is literally sweet with sugar in it, but rather that it simply gives the impression of sweetness due to the ripe fruit flavors.
Good syrah offers a captivating aroma of ripe black fruits, black pepper, and a distinctive gamey scent aficionados often compare to the smell of roasting meat.
It gets ripe. When it gets ripe, its sugar content increases. If you remember in your high school chemistry class, sugars are then converted to alcohol through fermentation.
Malic acid: A natural organic acid that occurs in ripe grapes at relatively high concentrations. It is the second most abundant organic acid in most vinifera varieties. Tartaric acid, of course, is the primary grape acid in nearly all varieties.
refers to sweet wines made from extra-ripe grapes
Lees
are the sediment consisting of dead yeast cells, grape pulp, seeds and pigment that drop to the bottom of a vessel during and after a wine's fermentation.
Canberra, Australia
Fine toned, fig and ripe citrus wines with enough muscle to carry all manner of winemaking detail
Cowra, Australia
Peachy, ripe, soft hearted wines with plenty of flavour, often with a dash of tropical fruit.
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Rich - Full, opulent flavour, body and aroma
Ripe - Mature, fully ripe fruit
Robust - Full-bodied, powerful, heady
Rough - Harsh edges, biting, unpleasant
Round - Smooth and well-developed flavour, without rough edges ...
Flavour & Character
Ultra ripe, fruity flavours, predominantly strawberry, coupled with a fiery spiciness. makes fleshy, heady, very fruity wines in their youth
Vinification
Often oaked as part of the Rioja maturation process.
Fleshy: Fatness of fruit; big, ripe.
Flinty: Dry, mineral character that comes from certain soils, mostly limestone, in which the grapes were grown; typical of French Chablis and Loire Valley Sauvignon Blancs (Sancerre).
Pick about 4lbs of unblemished, ripe fruit. Berries can stay whole, stone and seed fruit should be cut into small chunks, stones and seeds removed and discarded. Put the fruit in a nylon straining bag and tie off.
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Green: Tasting of un-ripe fruit. Not necessarily a bad thing, especially in a Riesling.
Heady: Used to describe the smell of a wine high in alcohol.
Herbaceous: The taste and smell of herbs.
Less-ripe grapes or grapes grown in cooler climates can contain high levels of malic acid; the resulting wines often contain aromas and flavors reminiscent of green apples. Converted to smoother lactic during malolactic fermentation.
RAISINY: Having the taste of raisins from ultra-ripe or overripe grapes. Can be pleasant in small doses in some wines.
RAW: Young and undeveloped. Raw wines are often tannic and high in alcohol or acidity.
Luscious
Soft, sweet, fat, fruity, and ripe. All these qualities in balance.
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Maceration
The process of soaking the skins of red grapes in their juice to dissolve the skin's colour, tannin and other substances into the juice.
The zip is no mistake in these robust wines that features good structure built upon a nose of ripe cherries and raspberries and a finish of spices and pepper.
Luscious: A full-flavoured, rich, ripe, fruity and sweet-flavoured wine is described a luscious.
Malbec: A grape variety once important in Bordeaux. A small amount is grown in Australia.
Late Harvest: Wine made from grapes that are picked very ripe. Late harvest wines are very sweet and are usually served as dessert wines.
Leather: The aroma of some red wines thanks to their reducing aging in the bottle.
Green: A wine not ready for drinking, or made form under ripe fruit. One that has too much acidity.
Hard: Term that refers to bitter and dry tastes associated with tannins on the finish of some wines.
This produces more ripe, jammy flavors in the wine and also helps encourage air circulation through the vines.
Tart
A term for the flavors and aromas associated with under-ripe fruit, or a term for wine with a high acid impression.
Tartaric acid
One of the essential organic acids found in wine.
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