unctuous: Rich, lush, intense wines with layers of concentrated, soft, velvety fruit are said to be unctuous.
Unctuous
An adjective to describe a thick, rich, and glycerine-laden wine with an equally rich aroma.
Vanilla
Specific spice term, highly characteristic of some wines (particularly Spanish and some California reds) aged in new American oak.
unctuous...
Layered, rich, intense wine - soft fruit. Sometimes used to describe fatness, a type of oiliness.
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A full unctuous wine.
Filtration :
Technique which consists of making the wine clearer by passing the wine through a filter (soil, a membrane or a plate) ...
Untuoso (unctuous) A type of wine which leaves a film on the wine glass and which is smooth on the palate. Creamy. The term is applied to wines which are both full and smooth.
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Stylistically, it is light, dry and refreshing; slightly sparkling; and a lovely unctuous fortified dessert wine called Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise in the southern Rhone Valley of France, Muscat de Rivesaltes in Roussillon, ...
Fat: Rich to the point of unctuous, with modest balancing acidity.
Firm: Perceptibly tannic and/or acidic, in a positive way. Firm wines are generally more flexible at the dinner table, as they serve to cleanse the palate??.
Though if made from fully ripe grapes it can imply a rather unctuous richness in the wine, sweet or dry; referring to a wine where the level of acidity is lower than the perceptible sweetness, or alcohol ...
Chenin blanc is arguably the most versatile of all wine grape varieties. Crisp, dry table wines, light sparkling wines, long-lived, unctuous, nectar-like dessert wines, and even brandy are all produced in various areas of the wine world, ...
Botrytis cinerea: [boh-TRI-tihs sihn-EHR-ee-uh] A beneficial mold that causes grapes to shrivel and sugars to concentrate, resulting in sweet, unctuous wines; common botrytis wines include French Sauternes, Hungarian Tokay, ...
Decadent: If you are an ice cream and chocolate lover, you know the feeling of eating a huge sundae of rich vanilla ice cream lavished with hot fudge and real whipped cream. If you are a wine enthusiast, a wine loaded with opulent, even unctuous ...
Indeed the grape is remarkable in France for being a single variety vinified alone yet producing wines in all styles from bone dry to unctuous.
the morning (by 10:00 a.m., when the sun gets high enough the sky, it gets too warm out). All this is carefully monitored for the sole reason that at this cold temperature, the water crystals within the grapes are frozen solid, leaving the unctuous, ...
Picking began on 21 September, but the best estates waited a while longer for botrytis to become widespread. Not all the fruit was healthy and some wines showed premature oxidation. The best wines are rich and unctuous, ...
Unctuous: The thick, unpleasant, almost syrupy texture of an overly sweet wine. VA: See Volatile Acidity.
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