Unfiltered Wine
Wine that has been bottled without filtration. Fashionable in quality wines, it avoids a process which many believe strips wine of some flavour and complexity.
Unfiltered wines are bottled with conventional corks and need to be decanted. Recent bottlings are identified by the label wording 'Unfiltered' or 'Bottle matured' (or both).
(With unfiltered wines - particularly, in my experience, wines from theRhõne - pigment deposits may stick to the bottle's sides, forming a voile. Thiswill remain, and is nothing to be concerned about.) ...
Many experts argue that unfiltered wines retain subtle flavor elements that may be stripped from wine with excessive filtration and fining.
Unfined and unfiltered wines are rich and have great mouthfeel, but from a winemaking perspective they are more difficult to do (because of bacterial issues).
Cloudy
Cloudiness is the visual characteristic of some unfiltered wines.
Cloying
Relates to an excessive sugar component with a dominating sweet flavour and aftertaste.
Rama (branch) En rama - a new wine that has not yet been fined (see Clarificación). Unfiltered wine.
Recio (gutsy) Well constituted, but full bodied.
This process clears a wine of impurities and bacteria, theoretically improving the clarity and taste, but some drinkers believe unfiltered wines taste more natural.
Fining ...
CLOUDY
Noticeable cloudiness is undesirable except in cellar aged wines that have not been decanted properly. A characteristic of some unfiltered wines showing the result of winemaking mistakes and often possessing an unpleasant taste.
After up to 20 months in French oak barrels, the wines are racked for a final time and bottledusually without filtration. Unfiltered wines, because they have not been stripped, tend to be more complex wines.
 See also: Unfiltered, Wine, Red Wine, Grape, Red
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