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Seductive Shiraz from Down Under
Attach the word, wine with the country of kangaroos, dingos, koalas, Ayer's Rock, platypuses, billabongs, aborigines, and Waltzing Matildas and everyone will say, "Shiraz".
Seductive: A wine that is appealing.
Short: Describes a wine that does not remain on the palate after swallowing.
SEDUCTIVE
A wine that is appealing.
SET
The fixing of tiny, newly pollinated grape berries to the cluster stems. Without set, the pistil (containing an ovary) would simply dry up and fall off.
A consistent and seductive vintage with a number of excellent wines at all levels. The finest come from the top properties where the most rigorous fruit selection was carried out.
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A seductive variety known as the red grape of Burgundy, this "heart break grape" is difficult to grow. The best are complex and sensual in texture, with flavors of strawberries, cherries, violets, and sometimes animal "barnyard" notes.
A wine of great sensuality, a silky texture and seductive aromas such as strawberries, cherries, black cherries, raspberries, violets, cinnamon, sassafras, mushrooms, truffles, rose petal, fresh earth and something called "barnyard, ...
For a wine that holds such a seductive and promiscuous name, it should be sexier; instead, it is a solid Chianti fill-in. An OK-to-good value at 12.99, if you can get it closer to ten bucks then grab it.
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Despite these difficulties, what motivates pinot noir producers to keep trying is that the grape can make marvelously aromatic, flavorful wines boasting a seductive perfume of strawberry, raspberry, black cherry, tea, mint, violets, ...
From Russian River, California, this wine is fermented entirely in French oak barrels to produce a wine with a seductive, round texture and notes of sweet vanilla.
They are rounded, seductive yet firmly composed wines that often have a very domineering presence on the palate.
 See also: Wine, Red, Sweet, Big, Texture
  
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