Weedy
Aromas or flavors reminiscent of hay or grass. A negative quality if excessive.
Weighty
Strong, full-bodied and powerful.
Weedy: A term to combine Herbaceous and tart smells/flavours is weedy.
Woody: Woody is a smell, which describes the nasty side to oak wood, an unacceptable mouldy sort of flavour that comes from a barrel in poor condition.
Weedy: see herbaceous often used to refer to Cabernets or Merlots.
WEEDY
Grassy
WEIGHTY
Well structured/balanced wines with an implication of mildly excessive flavor or heaviness.
Weedy
Another variation on "green" or "herbaceous," typically used in conjunction with "dill" to denote a red wine with a marked American oak character, like Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Herbaceous
weedy, off smell, seen sometimes in Cabernet
Hock
English term for Rhine wine ...
It can also be rather ordinary, light, simple, herbal, vegetal and occasionally weedy. It can even be downright funky, with pungent barnyard aromas.
If the grapes were not fully ripened when picked, it can have green bell pepper or weedy notes. As it ages, it takes on notes of seductive spices, anise, violets, leather, olive, tobacco and cigar box. It's often aged in oak from 6-24 months.
Granted, over-irrigating will produce wine that is low in alcohol and colour, and has a thin, weedy and dilute palate. You come across these regularly in wine tastings. They certainly stand out at least in their mediocrity.
 See also: Wine, Rough, Green, Grape, Alcohol
  
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