Stony
Displaying flavors or aromas that suggest stones or wet stones.
Structural components
A wine's alcohol, acid, tannin and sugar.
Stony: Akin to "steely," above, but with a distinct mineral quality alongside the metal. Reminiscent of licking on a pebble, something that most little boys do at one time or another. Classic descriptor for Chablis.
The Stony Hill has apparently always been made in a low-oak style, using used barrels - or as the PR euphemism now goes, "seasoned" barrels. (Why not?
Flinty: A stony taste in wines.
Floral/Flowery: Wines pleasant in aroma, reminiscent of the perfume of some flowers.
Fortified: Wines that are made stronger by adding brandy.
Flinty: A hard, stony taste in wine. A "flinty" wine is said to recall gunflint. Wines from the Chablis and Sancerre appellations in France have always been associated with a flinty smell and taste due to the calcareous soil.
The first lies on the left bank, and has a number of excellent sites, including the Kupfergrube (which until recently was still in use as a copper mine, from where the name originates), which has soils of stony clay, slate, ...
The first good bottlings of 2000 came from the following: Devon Hill, Stellenbosch (Cab S, Pinotage, Merlot); Laborie Estate, Paarl (Cab S); Devonair, Stellenbosch (Cab); Uiterwyk, Stellenbosch (Cab F, Pinotage); Stony Brook, ...
And it was a very typical Pouilly-Fume: herbaceous, smoky, and green fruit aromas and flavors, with distinct stony mineral, racy acidity.
Beaune Clos des Mouches Joseph Drouhin in Cõte de Beaune consists of 62 acres of light stony soil over chalky marl and has a direct southern exposure. The 1973 vintage ranked number five in the Judgment of Paris.
Difficult-to-describe term that may reflect the "stony" character of Chablis or the trademark flavor of Chateau Haut-Brion, or the odd, almost gasoline-like character (see "petrol" and "diesel") of older Rieslings.
"A lot of European wine country is very rocky, limestony, and how the grapes grow and the amount of protein they produce, maybe even differences in the kinds of yeasts that are used, may make a difference," Dr. Freitag adds.
This grape variety resists very well to high temperatures and prefers stony soil. Mourvèdre produces a bluish juicy berry. It is used to make full-bodied and deep wines. This is why it is associated to and .
Mineral
Difficult-to-describe term that may reflect the 'stony' character of Chablis. Associated with the minerals in the soil.
Minty
A desirable aroma in some wines, particularly Cabernet Sauvignon.
Vine
The vine is vigorous, high-yielding and well-suited to warm, dry and stony growing conditions. The leaves are large, round, rough, usually 3-5 lobed with a matt dark green upper surface and a lighter coloured tufted lower surface.
Alluvial: Soil that contains clay, silt, sand or gravel deposited by running water is said to be alluvial. Grapes grown in mostly sandy and stony alluvial soil produce wines with more concentrated fruit flavors.
elongated pentagon, five-lobed; cluster large, greater than that of Corvina grapes because of the larger pyramid, with one or two wings, medium compact; berry large, ellipsoidal with pruinose blue-black. It prefers alluvial soils, moraine, stony, ...
The same is true for the legendary reds of Châteauneuf du Pape, where the stony white soil's ability to retain heat, once considered a virtue, may now become a curse. California, Italy, Spain, and Australia are also at risk.
stonyAromas or flavours that suggest the mineral quality of stones. structural componentsA wine's alcohol, tannin, acid and sugar (if any). structureA tasting term.
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