Soft bean
Coffees that grow at relatively low altitudes (under 3,000 feet) are often described as soft bean. These soft bean coffees are faster maturing and more porous than the hard bean due to the lower altitude and warmer temperatures.
Soft
Description for a wine whose alcohol and sugar dominate the tannin and acidity, resulting in a wine without roughness or hardness.
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Soft
Tasting term describing wines with low alcohol, acid or tannin content which therefore have little impact on the palate.
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Soft: Describes wines low in acid or tannin (sometimes both), making for easy drinking. Opposite of hard.
Soft
Mellow, well-rounded, mature tannins and little evidence of acidity
Spicy
Exotic fruit and spice flavors in whites, particularly Gewürztraminer, but also a peppery or cinnamony clovey perfume in some reds ...
Soft: Describes a wine with low acid/tannin, or alcohol content with little impact on the palate.
Supple: Describes a wine with well-balanced tannins and fruit characteristics.
Thin: Lacking body and depth.
Soft:
Term to describe a wine
with low acid and gentle tannins.
Spicy:
Term to describe flavors that are spicy.
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Soft: Low in tannin and/or acidity.
Spine: The structural underpinning (provided by acidity and tannin), or backbone, of a wine. A wine with flesh but insufficient spine can come across as flabby or shapeless.
Soft
Suggest a mellow wine, usually low in acidity, and tannin.
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Soft
May refer to soft, gentle fruit in delicate wines, or to lack of acidity in wines without proper structure; used on a label occasionally to indicate low alcohol.
Solid
Sound, well structured, firm.
Soft
Delicate, gentle fruit in white wines, or lack of tannins in red wines. Sometimes used on a label to indicate low alcohol.
Solid
Firm structure and 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.
Spicy Rich, herb-like aroma and flavour of the variety - Shiraz and Gewurztraminer.
Soft: A wine with mild tannin or acid sensation with no harshness on the palate and after-palate is called soft.
Soft - A term applied to a wine that is not bright, crisp or high in acid.
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Soft
Gentle and well balanced, without being flabby or insipid.
Solid
Firm and well structured, with a good potential for improving as it ages.
Soft
A wine tasting term that refers to the lack of apparent tannins in a wine. If the wine is well aged, or in a style that is enjoyed young, soft is a plus.
Soft: A delicate wine with a slight fruitiness. It can also refer to a lack of balance in more robust wines.
Soft: A low-acid wine, not tart nor sour. Taken to extremes, it yields a wine that's "fat" or "flabby," but within an arm's length of balance, the wine may be palatable, even gulpable; many mass-market wines are consciously made on the soft side.
soft
A soft wine is one that is round and fruity, low in acidity, and has an absence of aggressive, hard tannins.
Soft
The mellowness found in either a mature wine or a young wine with low tannins and acids.
Sparkling wine
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Soft: see mellow.
Solera: a term referring to a method known as "fractional blending" in which older wines are blended with younger wines to arrive at a consistent, similar-tasting product.
Soft. A tasting term to describe a wine with low acid and gentle tannins.
Sommelier. The French term for a wine steward.
Soft: A desirable characteristics in a delicate wine denoting a slight fruitiness. Also refers to a deficiency or lack of balance in more robust ...
SOFT
Generally has low acid/tannin content. Also describes wines with low alcohol content. Consequently has little impact on the palate.
Soft palate
The soft palate (or velum, or muscular palate), is the soft tissue comprising the back of the roof of the mouth.
Soft: Legal term for a wine that is low in alcohol. Also a term to describe the taste of a wine that is low in acidity, flavor, body and which often tastes somewhat sweet.
Soft, fleshy wines that are approachable early
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The year started out fairly warm with budbreak in the Willamette Valley on April 10 & 11, right on time. There was no significant rainfall prior to or immediately after budbreak.
Soft and smooth in texture, with very little tannin.
Flinty
A descriptor for extremely dry white wines such as Sauvignon Blanc, whose bouquet is reminiscent of flint struck against steel; ...
Soft. Wine lacking in hardness or roughness, and present when alcohol and sugar dominate acidity and tannin.
Sommelier. a professional wine steward.
Take cold soft water and strawberries. Ferment.
Mix in raw sugar, red tartar, and lemons and oranges.
Add brandy.
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Four little soft, lumpy, brownish-black orbs about the size of gumdrops, nestled in a bed of arborio rice in a small plastic sandwich bag, they bore a suspicious resemblance to something out of the cat's litter box.
Flabby: Soft, feeble, lacking acidity on the palate.
Flat: Having low acidity; the next stage after flabby. Can also refer to a sparkling wine that has lost its bubbles.
Fleshy: Soft and smooth in texture, with very little tannin.
Pulp: The soft, moist, juice-laden part of the grape.
Punt: Term used to refer to the dimple, or indentation, at the bottom of a wine bottle. Also known as a kick-up.
Style
Subtle, soft and velvety. Lower in tannic bitterness and higher in alcohol than Cabernet Sauvignon.
Body, Dry/Sweet
Soft, often complex texture.
A wine with a soft, smooth texture.
Flinty
A stone or mineral-like character.
Floral
Tasting and/or smelling of flowers
Free-run
Wine or juice that is obtained without pressing
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harsh, hot, soft, lingering, short, smooth or nonexistent. See also "Finish".
Aroma: Refers to the particular smell of the grape variety, i.e. appley, raisiny, fresh or floral.
Assertive: Upfront, forward.
Attractive: A lighter style.
The opposite of a wine described as "smooth" or "soft"
Alcoholic A wine that has an out of balanced presence of too much alcohol.
Aroma The smell of a wine.
On the other hand, if it is insufficient, the wine is soft.
ACRE
Says itself of a wine which irritates the mucous membranes.
AÉROMETRE (AEROMETER)
Measuring apparatus of the density of must.
AGRÉABLE (PLEASANT)
Without defect.
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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.
Some migraine sufferers react to tannins and should stick to whites or soft reds. (Beaujolais, Dolcetto, most Pinot Noir, less expensive Merlot. Other red wines should be fully mature or aged.) ...
That means that no ubiquitous soft drink conglomerate bought them in the 1980's and ran them into the ground and sucked the life out of them.
Though it has open, forward flavors on the palate, it's not over the top but rather on the soft side, at least as far as Zinfandels go. The nose tempts with bright raspberry, blackberry, plum, and earthy aromas, with a touch of tar.
Many years later I were to read a paper by Virginia Collings (Collings, 1974) describing the variations across the tongue and soft palate in both detection threshold and in the ability to discriminate between realistic taste intensities.
Cabernet Sauvignon tends to be (I say tends to be because wine, unlike soft drinks or mass-produced beers, changes in character from year to year and from producer to producer) firmer and more tannic (tannin is what gives your mouth that ...
I have had a soft spot for Vacheron ever since. White Sancerre comes in varying styles, although broadly speaking they are fresh and balanced wines, with some minerality, which pair well with seafood amongst other things.
Americans raised in the last half of the 20th Century typically drank milk, or increasingly soft drinks, sweet and sometimes carbonated, as mealtime beverages. The longtime adage of wine marketers has been that "Americans talk dry but drink sweet".
Soft cheeses with bloomy white or red dotted rind, full bodied whites, younger reds, lower tannins
Orange-red rind soft cheeses, full-bodied reds with lower tannins, powerful whites ...
These DOC wines are soft and round, yet lively and fruity with characteristics of plums and cherries; they generally have a bitter finish.
Light, soft, red berry and herbal wines.
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Recently taken over from Cabernet Sauvignon as the most important red variety, has produced some fine, aromatic red wines, soft yet poised.
Silky is considered to be the most soft and caressing of wine textures, often reserved to describe light- to medium-bodied wines with a soft grained texture like silk.
This takes advantage of its soft and aromatic properties. It also occurs in many reds from the South and can be used to offset the harshness of the widely planted and highly productive Carignan.
Because malic acid is a "hard" acid and lactic acid a "soft" acid, the conversion creates a softening of the wine’s texture.
These are soft, fruity, easy-sipping wines. So effortless. In fact, they're so approachable that we often recommend them to white-wine drinkers who would like to make the transition to reds. Georges Duboeuf is reliable and ubiquitous.
Produces soft, fragrant white wines. Most of the crop is processed into a grape juice called "Traubenmost" and also made into a sweet wine called "Sturm" that is drunk very young in the manner of "nouveau" beaujolais.
It seems strange that Americans are perhaps the most enthusiastic consumers of sweet soft drinks, but when it comes to ordering a wine, the operative word is "dry".
Fat wines : Sweet and soft it is called flat and disliked. It is qualified of voluptuous when judged excellent.
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Take a sip of wine and swirl it around the mouth so that the wine is in contact with all parts of your mouth: tongue, gums, soft palate.
This pink shade can range from a soft, subtle hue to a vibrant, hot pink, depending on the grape used and how long the grape skins were in contact with the juice.
oak, the most common sort of wood used for barrels. Usually either soft, sweetish American oak or tauter, more savoury French oak.
Oechsle, measure of sugar concentration in grape juice (and therefore grape ripeness) or must common in Germany.
Mousse
A tasting term that describes how fizzy a sparkling wine seems in the mouth. A soft mousse is not too fizzy whereas a harsh mousse is too fizzy, like a carbonated soft drink.
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