Spirits
In wine, the distilled alcohol used to make fortified wines.
Stabilization
The process of removing unwanted substances before bottling so they won't cause haziness or crystal formation in the finished wine.
Neutral spirits
An alcoholic spirit purified in the still to a minimum of 95 percent of absolute alcoholic purity. The proof, which is calculated as twice the percent alcohol, is 190.
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"The problem spirits have had is convincing people that there is more than the alcohol hit," Harrison said. "You should look for depth of flavors and complexity as well."
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Wines with added spirits.
The main article for this category is Fortified wine.
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It makes good fertiliser, but can also be distilled to make spirits. Marie-JeanneThe name for a 2.25 litre wine bottle in Bordeaux.
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When you talk of wines and spirits from France, there has to be an understanding of exactly what this means as far as rules and regulations go.
This wine type involves the addition of grape spirits either during fermentation to halt fermentation or after fermentation. The great fortified wines of the world include Sherry, Port, and Madeira.
Home-distilled alcohols (spirits) are illegal to both produce and sell in the United States [1].
You can try putting the wine in a fridge a couple days before you plan to switch containers.
As described in the first lesson, the practical difference between spirits and beer/wine is that spirits are distilled and beer and wine are not distilled. But there are other, less objective distinctions.
You can view these ratings in many wine publications, such as Wine Spectator, The Wine Enthusiast, , or Wine & Spirits Magazine. You can also pay to subscribe to the many online wine rating guides.
Bob Green, an owner of Union Square Wines and Spirits in New York City, points a finger to crude alcohol in cheap wine.
Taxed at the lower rate of wine as opposed to distilled spirits, but with 20 percent alcohol, this group made the cheapest intoxicant available for derelicts and winos. Before 1920, there were more than 2,500 commercial wineries in the United States.
Wine, beer and other spirits edged out coffee at American dinner tables for the first time ever. Alcoholic beverages are now served at 3.5 percent of at-home dinners, while coffee is served at only 3.4 percent.
A method of expressing the alcohol content of spirits. Wine has the actual percentage listed. In the US proof is double the percentage of alcohol. So a 100 proof spirit, contains 50% alcohol. In Great Britian it would be 57.06% by volume.
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DESSERT WINE Has two meanings: Fortified wine - eg: Sherry - where alcohol is added in the form of Brandy or neutral spirits. Sweet or very sweet wines of any alcohol level customarily drunk with dessert or by themselves and usually in small amounts.
Caramel
Burnt sugar often added to spirits (especially whisky and very occasionally to wine), purely as a colouring agent. It should be tasteless and odourless and have no impact on the wine other than enhancing its colour.
"When wines were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people."
George E.B. Saintsbury (1845-1933),
English writer and critic.
Fortified wine - eg: Sherry - where alcohol is added in the form of Brandy or neutral spirits.
Sweet or very sweet wines of any alcohol level customarily drunk with dessert or by themselves and usually in small amounts.
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Millennia of men have dedicated words and lives to it; fools and the foolhardy have fallen under its alluring spell; heavenly spirits, armies, and countries have fought for it; farmers and workers have toiled tireless for its cultivation.
Common to all liquor. Ethyl alcohol, spirits distilled from grain, grape, fruit and .
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Master of Wine (MW)
The top qualification after a series of examinations devised by the Wine & Spirits Education Trust.
Matchstick
Tasting term describing the odour burnt matches (sulphur dioxide). Usually dissipates with decanting.
Fortified wine: A wine in which the alcohol content has been increased by the addition of wine, spirits, or brandy.
Free run wine: Wine derived from the grape juice obtained before pressing, through the natural bursting of the skins.
Liqueur
A strong alcoholic drink made from distilled spirits, with additional flavouring added like herbs and spices.
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Fortified: Denotes a wine whose alcohol content has been increased by the addition of brandy or neutral spirits.
Foxy: A term used to describe the unique musky and grapey character of many native American labrusca varieties.
The drained pomace (crushed mass remaining after extraction of the juice from the grapes), from white or red fermentations, may be used to provide distilling material for production of wine spirits.
A wine that has had its alcohol content raised by the addition of neutral grape spirits. For example, Port, which is about 20% alcohol by volume, is a fortified wine.
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Stravecchio
Very old, said of the most aged Marsalas and some spirits
Struttura
Structure, the way a wine is proportioned ...
Wales detects its presence as early as 1817, which suggests its use for liqueur wines and spirits, he also speaks in a publication of the Agrarian Florence (1870), but is cited by many ampelographers, including a Rovasenda (1877), ...
The top qualification for those in the wine trade, it being the last in a series of examinations devised by the Wine & Spirits Education Trust.
The ingredient in wine, beer, and other spirits is ethyl alcohol, also called ethanol. This is created by yeast, when the yeast ferments sugars. The fermentation process creates both alcohol and carbon dioxide.
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He is best known to winemakers for his quote: "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage." Personally, I'd vote for him today if only he would come back.
A considerable quantity of grapes cultivated in South Africa is still used for the production of concentrated must and for the production of spirits, as well as for the production of ordinary wines generally sold in 5 liter boxes.
There are also compounds in grapes and wine (especially red wine, grape juice, dark beers and tea, but absent in white wine, light beers and spirits) called resveratrol and quercetin.
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