Viscous: The thick appearance of wine.
Volatile: A wine spoiled by the presence of acetic acid is said to be volatile.
Wine: The fermented juice of grapes.
Viscous: Viscous is the thick appearance in wine; showing the presence of glycerol.
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Viscous wines tend to be relatively concentrated, fat, almost thick wines with a great density of fruit extract, plenty of glycerin, and high alcohol content.
Viscous
Tasting term used for wines that are thick, heavy-textured and concentrated. Sweet wines made from grapes that have been affected by *noble rot are commonly viscous.
Viscous:Describes full-bodied, thick, rich wines.
Viticultural Area:Defines a legal grape-growing area distinguished by geographical features, climate, soil, elevation, history and other definable boundaries.
The viscous droplets that form and ease down the sides of the glass when the wine is swirled.
Length
The amount of time the sensations of taste and aroma persist after swallowing. The longer the better.
Legs The viscous droplets that form and ease down the sides of the glass when the wine is swirled. The more pronounced and persistent the legs, the higher the alcohol content of the wine.
Legs-The viscous rivulets that run down the side of the glass after swirling or sipping, a mingling of glycerin and alcohol.
Length-Lingering aftertaste.
oily: A wine with a viscous texture. Some varieties of grape such as Gewürztraminer and Pinot Gris often produce wines with this texture.
" Shorte wine is therefore not viscous. (Markham says of Gascon wine, "In any case, let it be short, for if it be long, then in no wise meddle with it" [p. 143].) The term "fat" is taken over from the French ("se le vin est gras," Le Menagier, p. 68), ...
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Viognier often has a viscous, opulent, creamy texture, even without oak aging. With oak aging, it also has notes of butter, cream, oak, smoke, tobacco and toast. Late-harvest and dessert styles have deeply ripe tropical fruit aromas.
When the berries are left on the vines to develop botrytis cinerea, an intense , sweet, viscous dessert wine is produced which will improve considerably with age.
Note the wine's viscosity - how slowly it runs back down the side of the glass - while you're swirling. More viscous wines are said to have "legs," and are likely to be more alcoholic.
Tannic full-body red wine in Madiran, sweet viscous of Monbazillac, intense red Cahors or aromatic dry Jurançon. The wines from South West of France have plenty of things to offer to any wine lovers.
At the molecular level, liquid ethanol consists of hydrogen-bonded pairs of ethanol molecules; this phenomenon renders ethanol more viscous and less volatile than less polar organic compounds of similar molecular weight.
It nose contains pear and honey. It's texture is thick and viscous. On the palatte it tasts almost like a Corton-Charlemagne. The fruit is concentrated. I would score this an 8 out of 10. Price is $33 per bottle.
The amount of glycerol found in wine is too small to make the wine thick (in fact, dry wines are slightly less viscous than water).
Glycerin, also known as glycerol, improves wine's quality by making it taste richer, more full-bodied and viscous.
Alsatian Reisling is different from German Reisling in that it isn't as sweet, but it has the great body and viscous flavors embodied by the Reisling grape.
Lower Hunter, Australia
Classic Aussie dry white, lightly straw-like when young, with a decade bottle age it becomes a rich glory, with a viscous fattness to match its toast and nuts flavours.
Its perception is often complicated as it generally exists in wine alongside other faults, but it is usually described as viscous, ester-like combined with a sweet and irritating finish.
The color varies from a very pale yellow with a slightly green and often brilliant tinge when young that evolve with age into a golden, honey-colored, possibly viscous wine.
 See also: Grape, Wine, Fruit, White, Sweet
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