Round: Describes a texture that is smooth, not coarse or tannic.
Rustic: Describes wines made by old-fashioned methods or tasting like wines made in an earlier era. Can be a positive quality in distinctive wines that require aging.
Round
Having smooth and well-developed flavors, with no rough edges.
Round
Describes a tactile feeling of fatness on the palate with no dominating characteristic.
Rustic
Tasting term quite similar for rough ...
Round: Describes a well-balanced wine in fruit, tannins and body.
Seductive: A wine that is appealing.
Short: Describes a wine that does not remain on the palate after swallowing.
Round:
Describes a wine
that has a good balance of fruit and tannins,
with good body as well.
Round
A descriptor for wines that seem neither flat nor angular, related to the wine's structure.
Rough
The astringent sensation in the mouth.
Round
Smoothly developed flavor and body. Also used in place of "balanced."
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Secondary Fermentation
Another term for Malolactic fermentation. The bacterial process that converts malic acid to lactic acid.
Round Well balanced.
Soft Accessible, not much tannin and grip in the mouth.
Skin contact Amount of time grape skins remain with the wine to extract flavour.
Round
Smooth and well-developed flavor, without angularity or rough edges.
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Sharp
Biting acid or tannin.
Round
A wine tasting term applied to a wine that is well balanced. Often used as in "a well rounded wine."
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Round
Well developed, with no sharp edges. Usually applicable to mellow, full-bodied, ample wines.
Ruby
Reddish-orange. Like "garnet," a jewel color used as a metaphor for fine red wine.
Round: Mature, full-bodied wine which is smooth, graceful.
Sangria: Great in the summer, it is a cheaper wine flavored with fruit (peaches, oranges, apples).
Sasa: Sweet wine high in sugar.
round
A very desirable character of wines, roundness occurs in fully mature wines that have lost their youthful, astringent tannins, and also in young wines that have soft tannins and low acidity.
Round
Describes a mouthfeel that is smooth and harmonious, not rough or tannic.
Round: A mature, full-bodied wine that is smooth and graceful.
Sake: A colorless Japanese wine made from fermented rice. It is usually served warm in a very small cups. Alcohol content ranges from 12% to 16%.
ROUND
Describes flavors and tactile sensations giving a feeling of completeness with no dominating characteristic. Almost the same as fat, but with more approval.
Round out the meal with a loaf of crusty French bread and tasty olive oil for drizzling.
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Round. As opposed to flat or angular, refers to a wine's structure, particularly acid, tannin, sweetness and alcohol.
Shoulder. the part of a wine bottle where the neck flares to the full diameter of the bottle.
The round, medium-gold to amber Marsanne berries make deep-colored wine that is also fairly full-bodied, sometimes described as almost "waxy".
Well rounded, high in tannin content and ages admirably.
Body, Dry/Sweet
Mellow; ranges from medium bodied to heavier, full bodied Australian examples.
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Decant: The process of transferring wine from a bottle to another holding vessel. The purpose is generally to aerate a young wine or to separate an older wine from any sediment.
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As background, first let's run through a quick refresher course in the broad outlines of French wine classification.
Further round the coast is Walker Bay, a relatively cool climate region which as always has led to the planting of Pinot Noir.
Supple: Round and smooth, as opposed to noticeably tannic or acidic. As red wines age and their tannins begin to resolve, they typically become more supple in texture.
Redondo (rounded) Wine whose components are in harmony and no specific element stands out.
Refrescar (refresh) To blend some young wine with another older wine.
A good crop of rounded, fruity wines rather short of acidity
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This is a nice, round, warm red with good tannins that will match well with hard cheeses, turkey burgers, poultry, and meatier fish, such as catfish and salmon.
So with the background of locations settled, let's chat about the wine itself. Just three grape varieties are cultivated (99% of the time). They are Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and then Gamay (in the AOC of Beaujolais).
He leaves large, rounded pentagonal, three-lobed; bunch medium to large, pyramidal, with a wing, medium loose, with reddish stems, wine (hence the name), berry medium, iron with thick waxy skin on average and good resistance, ...
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Round A wine that has a good sense of body that is not overly tannic.[3]
Sassy A wine with bold, brash and audacious flavors.
Successful barrel fermentation makes the wine rounder, and creamier, with a hint of butter, toast, spice, and vanilla.
Blend
To combine two or more individual lots of wine, usually coming from different grape varieties.
Examine the color of the wine; if you can, hold it up in front of a lightly-colored background so you can really see what's inside. Is it dark crimson, or a pale red with a slightly golden tint?
But you'll need to have deep pockets, because there is no getting round the fact that Bordeaux is expensive.
These two wines comprise the majority of the region's wine, with Chablis, Gamay and some sparkling wines rounding out the rest of Burgundy's wine offerings.
Lift your glass up to the light or a white background. The wine's color should be clear and brilliant.
Next, swirl the wine gently in the glass by holding the stem and keeping the base on the table.
A typical characteristic of Barolo is the evident astringency because of tannins, a peculiarity which usually needs some years, usually about five, before getting a more round and less aggressive character.
Hold the wine up against a white background (a napkin or piece of paper works fine) and notice its color characteristics. The more wines you sample, the more similarities and differences you'll begin to notice.
Smell.
For most of us, a house basement works just fine, especially if it is completely or mostly underground. Temperatures will fluctuate with the seasons, but the changes will be gradual.
In France Cabernet Franc is to be found in the Loire Valley, especially in the areas round Chinon and Bourgueil, in the Bordeaux area especially on the right bank of the Gironde round St. Emilion and Pomerol.
2 Oxidization Decanting facilitates oxidization of the wine, turning a vigorous young red wine more mellow and round. 3 Bouquet 4 Sediment It helps the development of the aroma, bringing out the bouquet of the wine.
Pinot (Noir) because the name does not belong to a unique vine species but to what the french grower calls a "cépage", that is, a growth defined as a group of closely related but not quite identical vine varieties sharing the same genetic background; ...
ROND (ROUND)
It is said of a wine whose flexibility, marrowy one and flesh give in mouth a pleasant impression of roundness.
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The existence of this variety was documented in Rhineland as early as in the 7th century and round around the Lake of Constance in the 9th century. Karl IV. let the variety bring to Bohemia in the 14th century.
Lift your glass up against a blank background to get a general impression of the color. Check that the wine is clear (no haze and murkiness) and bright.
Color: hold the glass at an angle against a white background (table cloth or sheet of paper) and assess the color in the middle of the bowl of the glass and at the rim. White wines start life pale and darken with age.
Currently the wine is a round, medium-bodied effort that ages fairly well, although the main ingredient is now the grape known as Blaufrankisch, thought to be a Gamay clone.
Plummy
Often applied to big, round, ripe reds from Pomerol, St-Emilion, Cote Du Nuits and Napa
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 bottle ...
Wines with generous, full, pleasant flavors, usually sweet and round in nature, are described as rich. In dry wines, richness may be supplied by high alcohol and glycerin, by complex flavors and by an oaky vanilla character.
Alcohol doesn’t just provide the kick: it gives texture ("body"), flavor (roundness and sweetness) and vinosity (makes it smell and taste like wine) as well as providing balance and a certain chemical and physical stability to wines.
The degree to which a wine is well-rounded and rich.
Sorbic acid :
Acid used as anti-septic and anti-oxidizing agent. Particularly used in sweet white wines with the purpose of avoiding the risks of secondary refermentation.
A storage area for wine, not necessarily underground. A cellar is the best area to keep wines for aging. Ideal conditions are darkness, controlled cool temperature, and high humidity.
Simply hold the glass at an angle against a white background. If you are viewing a red wine then you should be seeing a vibrant and clear color. For whites you should be seeing a lucid and clear color.
"Legs": the streams of wine that surround the basin of the glass after swirling. A mythical indicator of wine quality.
Malic Acid: A naturally occurring acid, also one of the predominant acids, found in grapes.
Phylloxera - A microscopic underground insect that kills grape vines by attacking their roots.
Pip - Grape seeds.
Plan Bordeaux - A proposal for enhancing the economoic status of the wine industry in Bordeaux.
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