Tight: Describes a wine's structure, concentration and body, as in a "tightly wound" wine. Closed or compact are similar terms.
Tinny: Metallic tasting.
Tired: Limp, feeble, lackluster.
Tight
A tasting term used mainly for young wines.
Toast
Toast refers to the process of burning charcoal into the inside of wine casks.
Tight
A descriptor for wines whose aromas and/or flavors seem to be lacking in expression.
Toasted
An aroma found in Champagne reminiscent of toasted bread.
tightly knit
Young wines that have good acidity levels, good tannin levels, and are well made are called tightly knit, meaning they have yet to open up and develop.
Tight
Describes a wine's current structure, concentration and body in comparison to its potential. Although it may have the potential to be a good wine, its components are 'tightly wound' like a spring ready to be released.
TIGHT: Describes a wine's structure, concentration or body. Although a temporary condition that is most common with younger wines that have high aging expectations, a wine at any age may exhibit this quality. Closed or compact are similar terms.
tightly knit
flavours that are firmly woven together, not loose or diffuse, shows good potential for development
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TIGHT (see also ANGULAR, CLOSED-IN, HARD).
A term for young wines. Almost an synonym for "dumb".
The tight bunches rot easily, so it does best in drier climes. The Cinsaut vine is fairly drought tolerant and has a fairly short growing season. With cluster stems that easily detatch from the vine, Cinsaut adapts well to machine harvesting.
Cover tightly, reduce heat to very low, and cook for about 15 to 20 minutes or until the liquid is all absorbed and the rice is cooked.
Firm
Tightly knit structure and balance.
Flat
Dull, lacking in liveliness, often in wine without sufficient acid.
Thin
A term to describe wines that seem lacking in substance.
Tight
A descriptor for wines whose aromas and/or flavours seem to be lacking in expression.
greenWine that was made from unripe grapes - tart and tight. green harvestThe practice of removing unripe bunches of grapes in midsummer in order to reduce the yield per plant and increase the quality.
Tight A wine with a significant presence of tannins that is restraining the other qualities of the wine, such as fruit and extract, from being more noticeable.
After Piesport the Mosel turns south and then turns tightly north once more, before flowing more smoothly past the vineyards of Brauneberg, ...
If you threw the cork away but still want to store leftover wine, secure the opening with a piece of plastic wrap and a tightly wound rubber band.
Some wines are designed to be enjoyed fresh, while others improve with age.
True Port from Portugal is a tightly controlled, regulated (by the Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto), and regarded wine. Port wine is a sweet Portuguese fortified wine from the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal.
It produces quite a large, tight, cylindrical bunch with one or two wings, which may be quite evident, and a sturdy, woody bunchstem. Its spheroid grape has a blue-black, tough skin with good bloom. Green-reddish pedicel.
[8] Screwcaps form a tighter seal and can keep out oxygen for a longer period of time than natural cork. These benefits aid in maintaining the wine's overall quality and aging potential.
Firm - Taut balance of elements; tightly knit structure; also distinct flavour.
Flat - Dull, lacking in liveliness; wine without sufficient acid.
Flavour - How the wine tastes.
Rule #2 to up your odds of preserving the wine intact, make sure you recork it with the tightest fit possible.
So how do the wine experts know the difference between a "closed, tightly wound wine" and a wine that's simply not good?
It must be durable, flexible, and air tight.
Corkscrew
A corkscrew is a tool for removing a cork.
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These oak barrels are not airtight - some tiny amounts of wine can seep through the tiny holes in the seams of the oak barrels. Over the months and years that a wine ages, a tiny amount of wine is lost. This is called the "angel's share".
Unfinished white wines, tightly corked and refrigerated, should maintain their character for up to four days, while reds will begin to degrade after 48 hours.
Any closure that seals the bottle airtight is a perfect one for wine. Contrary to popular belief, cork does not - or should not - let air into a wine bottle over time. It is intended to create an airtight seal.
The grapes of Pinot Noir are tiny and very tight around the stem. The juice is sweet uncolored. It is the colored component of the skin which dissolving in contact with the juice gives the wine its glistening colour. It brings summer fruit aromas.
Wine must be stored on its side to keep the cork moist and tight against the bottle neck.
Although American oak is relatively dense making it easily watertight and cheap to mill and cooper, compared to French oak, it has relatively large amounts of some distinctive flavor compounds, reminiscent of dill and coconut, ...
Pennsylvanian oak is tightly grained, and is reminiscent of French oak except with some subtle coconut and vanilla notes. In contrast, Virginian oak imparts a burst of coconut and vanilla, but also gives the wines finesse and mouth-feel with time.
Tight clustered Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel and Pinot Noir are most susceptible to mold. The looser clusters of Cabernet Sauvignon allow for faster drying of moist grapes and thus make it less susceptible.
Or, it can refer to a more tightly defined sub-region like Oak Knoll within Napa Valley or Médoc within Bordeaux.
Cigars that have a square shape because of tight packaging in a box.
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One features spicy, peppery, wild berry flavors, with tight tannins and pleasant earthy notes, modeled after the wines of the Northern Rhõne. The other is a riper, more opulent, berry-centered style, more reminiscent of Aussie Shiraz.
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The best are rare and exciting, tight, very deep flavoured, slightly meaty/earthy wines with piercing aromatics.
Velouté
A sauce made with veal stock, cream, and tightened with a white roux.
Vert
The French term for green.
If we taste a wine and it's so tight that it needs decanting, we can decant; if we decant first and then find that the wine lost some fruit to the air, there's no going back.
Wine that has undergone a second fermentation in the bottle or in relatively small, air-tight vats. Sparkling wines must have a pressure of at least 4 bar.
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Fruit
The bunches are usually small, tight, winged and cylindrical in shape. The berries are usually small, round, thick-skinned and pale yellow becoming darker and speckled when ripe.
"Restaurants are by no means the only place to have fun with wine and food, but they are the place where people seem get the most uptight about having the 'right' wine and food match."
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The practice of adding sugar to the juice prior to fermentation to increase the potential alcohol and quality of the wine. Illegal in many regions, and tightly controlled in others.
An "astringent" wine is "chewy".The tannin, which is very concentrated, is rough and causes the gums and tongue to tighten.
Aubance :
Vineyard in Anjou which stretches from the Loire to Layon.
The iodine solution should be in as small a glass container as is convenient, and kept tightly closed and in a cool place. An alternative method of managing the iodine is to make up a 0.20 molar stock solution (10 times working strength).
Appellation: The specific area a wine comes from. It can refer to a region, such as Bordeaux or Burgundy in France, for example. It can refer to an even more tightly defined sub-region within, say, Bordeaux, such as The Médoc.
Oxidation/Oxidised
What happens to the surface of a cut apple when exposed to air. Grapes and grape juice oxidise if not handled carefully. Bottled wine will also oxidise if the seal is not airtight.
oxidation, potentially serious calamity that can strike grapes, grape juice and wine if they are over-exposed to oxygen, making them go brown (like a cut apple) and taste flat. Wines suffering from oxidation, sometimes from a less-than-airtight ...
This corkscrew is most useful with tight-fitting or older corks that are falling apart, but you should never use it with loose corks because it will probably just push the cork inside the wine bottle.
The main problem of the wines of those times was the scarce preservability because of the containers and mainly because of their scarce capacity to be airtight.
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