Vigorous
Having a strong body and assertive, fruity flavor.
VILLARD BLANC
A French-American hybrid white-wine grape formerly widely grown in France, but now being replaced with European Union-approved varieties.
Vigorous
Healthy, lively, firm, and youthful. Opposite of insipid and flabby.
Watery ...
Vigorous
Firm, lively fruit, strong body, and assertive flavor.
Vinegary
Having the smell of vinegar; see also Acetic.
Vigorous: In wine, a lively taste or feel.
Vinegary: Wine spoiled by the vinegar bacteria, not pleasant to drink. Vinegar is a major winemaking fault that is easily detected by a sharp sensation on the nose or palate.
Vigorous
Lively and strong wine, usually still developing in a healthy way.
VIGOROUS
Assertive flavor, strong bodied wine.
VIN
French word for wine.
Vigorous plant, needs a good pruning to avoid excessive vegetative. In Italy, even today, the best Sauvignon produced in Friuli and Alto Adige, in almost all aged in steel.
Vigorously fermenting red wine.
[edit] Fermentation The conversion of grape sugars to alcohol by yeast.
[edit] Fiasco The straw-covered flask historically associated with Chianti.
AMIGNE: Vigorous minor grape of ancient origin grown in the Valais district of Switzerland. Used to make an occasionally delicate, perfumed sweet white wine. The dry wine versions are considered to be somewhat ponderous by some.
Triage
vigorous separation of good grapes from bad at harvest, picked over by hand
Trockenbeerenauslese
rare German wine made from specially selected overripe grapes ...
ROBUST
Vigorous, full with a lot of heart, a big scaled wine.
ROTTEN EGG
Smell of Hydrogen Sulfide gas in wine. Thought to be a characteristic imparted by certain yeast strains. A decided flaw.
The vine is vigorous and high-yielding, with long cylindrical bunches of tough-skinned berries that yield acidic yellow juice.
Synonyms ...
Vigoroso
Vigorous, wines with a forward taste
Vinacce
The grape pulp, seeds, and skin that remains after pressing. It is used to make grappa.
Swirl your wine vigorously in the glass, and observe how it looks and acts versus other wines. Examine the colour, especially against a light.
Vine
The vine is vigorous, of upright growth and yields well. The leaves are large, thick and 5-lobed, with an intense green smooth upper surface and a slightly downy dull pale green under surface.
Serving temperature may affect it's appearance - a colder wine will effervesce less vigorously. beerenausleseGerman term for individually selected grapes that a very ripe and sweet.
Shows vigorous growth and is late maturing. Members of the cépage are now thought to be descendants of the ancient Fié variety once common in the Loire region of France.
A wet winter followed by rain in the spring and early summer created vigorous growth followed by a long, cool growing season and late harvest in most of California.
In the first and most vigorous stage of fermentation (2 to 4 days), the yeast action is mainly to produce more yeast. This is the aerobic (contact with air) fermentation.
Put it on a lightly floured bread board or counter top and knead it vigorously for 5 minutes or more until it's smooth.
2 Oxidization Decanting facilitates oxidization of the wine, turning a vigorous young red wine more mellow and round. 3 Bouquet 4 Sediment It helps the development of the aroma, bringing out the bouquet of the wine.
It says itself of a wine little coloured and not very vigorous, but balanced and pleasant. In general, with drinking rather quickly.
LEVURES (YEASTS)
Unicellular microscopic mushrooms causing alcoholic fermentation.
LIE (BIND) ...
Merlot is moderately vigorous in vine growth, but must sometimes be reined in from setting too large of a crop by judicious pruning, often followed weeks later by cluster thinning.
Primary Fermentation: The first vigorous "rolling" fermentation, in which yeast convert sugar in the wine to alcohol and carbon dioxide.
� Altus Chardonnay is very vigorous here in Arkansas and produces with the help of my vineyard team here at Chateau. �Unlike Cynthiana, Chardonnay requires a lot of maintenance through out the growing season.
Tasting term describing brawny and vigorous scaled wines.
Rootstock
The lower portion of a root and its corresponding growth buds, used for vine propagation.
Robust: Describes a full-bodied, intense and vigorous wine; possibly inflated.
Round: Describes a well-balanced wine in fruit, tannins and body.
Seductive: A wine that is appealing.
By the way, olive oil assessment is conducted by tasting the oils neat, vigorously sucking air through the oil while in the mouth and spitting it out. Water and green apples are used to cleans the palate between oils.
AERATION: This is the process of trying to drive more oxygen (air) into the wine, usually done through decanting, double decanting, or vigorous swirling in the glass.
Robust: Means full-bodied, intense and vigorous, perhaps a bit overblown.
Round: Describes a texture that is smooth, not coarse or tannic.
V
Vanilla - A scent imparted by ageing in oak.
Velvety - Smooth and rich in texture.
Vigorous - Firm, lively fruit, strong body; assertive flavour.
Vinegary - Having the smell of vinegar; see also Acetic.
"Big", meaning full-bodied, intense and vigorous.
Round
Describes a texture that is smooth, not coarse or tannic.
exuberant
Like extroverted, somewhat hyper people, wines too can be gushing with fruit and seem nervous and intensely vigorous.
Robust:Describes a wine that is full-bodied, intense and vigorous; can be a bit overblown.
the size of the bubbles in a glass of sparkling wine or Champagne. Some people say that the smaller and more persistent the bead, the finer the wine. Serving temperature may affect it's appearance - a colder wine will effervesce less vigorously.
the bubble size in sparkling wine or Champagne. Some opinions are that finer wines have smaller and more persistent bubbles. Note that the serving temperature can affect the bead, the colder the wine is served then the bubbles are less vigorous.
The oldest Vega Sicilia I've tasted was 1970-a friend shared one of his bottles with me last year-and it was so vigorous and youthful that if it had been poured blind I would have guessed it was a wine 10 years old.
Robust: Describes a full-bodied, intense and vigorous wine.
Round: Describes a well-balanced wine in fruit, tannins and body.
Seductive: A wine that is appealing.
Short: Describes a wine that does not remain on the palate after swallowing.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Aroma, Character, Fruit
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