Toasting nuts
Brings the nut oils to the surface, to enhance flavor. Useful in low-fat cooking, to provide nut flavor in smaller portions. Also facilitates removal of nut skins.
Toasting Oak
After the type of oak is chosen a winemaker will decide on what degree of toasting is appropriate for the wine's style.
Toasty
A tasting term. Toasty means literally means just that - smelling or tasting of toast.
Toasty
A tasting term literally meaning just that - wine smelling or tasting of toast.
Toast
Toast refers to the process of burning charcoal into the inside of wine casks.
Toasted
A tasting term referring to the smelling or tasting of roasted bread.
Toasting: Heating the inside of a barrel during its construction to caramelize the flavors. This impacts the flavor and aromatic characteristics of the wine during barrel aging.
Toast. You can say "Kanpai" if you're in a Japanese restaurant. Touch the cups together. If you are drinking with a person higher in status than you, make sure the rim of your cup is below his rim when the two meet.
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Drinking sake.
Toasty: Describes a flavor derived from the oak barrels in which wines are aged. Also, a character that sometimes develops in sparkling wines.
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Toasty
The barrel smell and taste imparted to oak-fermented white wines and barrel-aged white burgundy
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Toasting
The carmelization of barrel staves. The amount of "toast" can vary, imparting different characteristics to the wine.
Toasty:
Often used to describe a white wine
with a nice hint of the wooden barrel
in which the wine was stored.
Sweeter wines are rarely described this way.
Toasty: Describe a hint of the wooden barrel. Usually associated with dry white wines.
Velvety: Having rich flavour and a silky texture.
Zesty: A wine that's invigorating.
Toasty Biscuity character.
Tropical Pawpaw, granadilla aromas.
Unbalanced Component parts on palate ill matched: over-tannic. over-acid, lacking fruit.
toasting: Refers to the process of burning the inside of a partially constructed wine barrel with an open flame. The level of toast is achieved by either varying either temperature or length of time of firing.
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A smell of grilled toast can often be found in wines because the barrels the wines are aged in are charred or toasted on the inside.
Toast, toasty: Descriptive flavor and aroma term that may result from making wine in lightly toasted or charred oak barrels; Also found in fine Champagnes and older Bordeaux.
Toast - The charcoal that is burned into the inside of wine casks. To toast refers to that process. It also refers to the practice of drinking an alcohol beverage along with wishing good health or other good fortune.
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Other, similar descriptors are "caramel" and "toffee". Some also add spicy flavours, such as "cinnamon" or "cloves".
Toasty
Toasty describes a wine that smells or tastes like toast. This characteristic comes from the wine's contact with the inside of a charred oak barrel.
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Toasty Describes a wine characteristic reminiscent of lightly burnt toast, complete with the bready notes. Often derived from barrel-aging and frequently associated with dry sparkling wines.
Toasty
Is a descriptor used to talk about wines, usually chardonnays or sparkling wines, that display the aromas and flavours of toasted bread, imparted by maturation in oak barrels.
Toasted Barrels:As a barrel is being constructed, but before the heads at either end are added, the cooper (barrel maker) chars the inside edges of the staves.
1. Toast the Sichuan peppercorns in a small, dry skillet, then crush them into a coarse powder with the black peppercorns and sea salt in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle.
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Smoky
Toasted oak aroma and flavor .
Soft
Delicate, gentle fruit in white wines, or lack of tannins in red wines. Sometimes used on a label to indicate low alcohol.
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charryAromas and flavours of a toasty nature created by the application of oak barrel aging to the wine.
A wine that has extensive aromas and flavors derived from toasted oak.
Oligomer
A medium sized compound made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers.
Smokey A wine exhibiting the aromas and flavors of the various types of smoke, such as tobacco smoke, roasting fire smoke and a toasty smoke derived from oak influences.
Smooth A wine with a pleasing texture.
Successful barrel fermentation makes the wine rounder, and creamier, with a hint of butter, toast, spice, and vanilla.
Blend
To combine two or more individual lots of wine, usually coming from different grape varieties.
In this way the wine will increase its oxidation and its color will get darker, while exalting toasted and nutty aromas.
This adds some complexity to the wine, and also imparts toasty, nutty and vanilla-like flavours to the wine, especially when the barrels are new. Red wines are rarely fermented in barrels, but will often spend a lengthy period of ageing in them.
This can include the sense of vanilla, sweet spices like nutmeg, a creamy body and a smoky or toasted flavor.
Powerful A wine with a high level of alcohol that is not excessive alcoholic.
Oak (heavy): oak, smoke, toast
Wines dominated by Semillon may lack much youthful aroma, but have fairly full body and tend to be low in acidity, even "fat" at times.
Historically famous, the wine drunk by the founding fathers of the United States to toast the signing of the Declaration of Independence is reported to have been Madeira.
Many Champagne houses and sparkling wine producers make elegant Rosé Champagnes and sparkling wines that are full-bodied and toasty with tart strawberry flavors.
In ancient Rome bits of toast were floated in goblets of wine. There is a story that a wealthy man threw a lavish party in which the public bath was filled with wine. Beautiful young women were invited to swim in it.
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I'd like to propose a toast: To wine, a truly terrific friend. I only wish that more people realized it's really quite approachable. Contrary to popular belief, wine tasting is no longer for those who have merlot rather than blood in their veins.
Winemakers may lightly toast the inner surface of barrels, allowing the smoky oak or toasty characters to be detected in the final product. Oak gives the taste a dimension of spiciness and adds a hint of vanilla or coconut to the grapes aroma.
It produces straw-colored wines that smell and taste of honey, ripe pears, and toasted hazelnuts. It's best wine is the DOCG Fiano di Avellino. Fiano is found in the south of Italy, most notably in Campania and Sicily.
Oak notes can include such elements as vanilla, spices (clove, cinnamon) cedar, smoke, toast, bourbon and roasted coffee, among others.
Burnt: Describes wines that have an overdone, smoky, toasty or singed edge. Also used to describe overripe grapes.
Buttery: Indicates the smell of melted butter or toasty oak. Also a reference to texture, as in "a rich, buttery Chardonnay." ...
"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste."
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961),
U.S. author. Count Mippipopolous, in
The Sun Also Rises, bk. 1, ch. 7 (1926).
"Oaky": Flavors and aromas depicting vanilla and toast.
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The sparkling wine from Champagne will usually present with a light colour, high acidity and a toasty, apple fruit-flavoured long palate.
If you've got an amethyst around, put it on and give a toast to the ancient love of wine and fine gems. A lovely pair to keep around!
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Generally, oak imparts a woody aroma and flavor but can also add others as well. Depending on how charred the oak barrels were, you can get mild contributions of vanilla and toast all the way up to heavily charred and roasted coffee, ...
You can tell over-oaked wines as one of the following flavors will be predominant: smoke, toast, vanilla, or butterscotch.
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Fat with tropical fruit, even pineapples when young. Thick and toasty with age.
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Soft charming, warm with hay-like characters and buttery softness, with a twist of citrus when young.
This may manifest itself in many forms depending on the wine, the source of the oak, whether the barrels were "toasted" (charred) and whether they are large or small, new or old.
Wine engages all the senses: sight, smell, taste, mouthfeel - even sound when glasses touch in a toast! To fully enjoy fine wine, don't be afraid to savor every sensation - especially its aroma and flavor.
Oaky
The number one choice of wood for wine barrels. It imparts toasty, vanilla, and smoky aromas to the wine.
Oenology
The science behind winemaking.
This can be either positive or negative. The terms toasty, vanilla, dill, cedary and smoky indicate the desirable qualities of oak; charred, burnt, green cedar, lumber and plywood describe its unpleasant side.
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Oaky: The odor and/or flavor of wines aged in small oak barrels. Some oak barrels impart a toasty or spicy vanillin odor and taste which is desirable in moderation but undesirable if exaggerated.
Showing substantial influence of the oak barrels that may manifest itself in many forms depending on the wine, the source of the oak, whether the barrels were "toasted" (charred) and whether they are large or small, new or old.
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