Wine Glossary
Acid/ Acidity : Acids, primarly citric, malic and tartaric, occur naturally in wine and, in the proper proportion, are essential ingredients, giving the wine character and helping it age.
Wine for the Confused is a documentary hosted by John Cleese. It is a light-hearted introduction to wine for novices.
Wine Education Articles Original articles covering a variety of wine tasting topics.
Wine Storage Options
If buying a cooler, see that it closes well and has quality insulation so that the wine will stay cooler longer and at the right temperature. Coolers are also quite compact in size.
Wine bottles
Since 1979, metric standards have been in use in the United States and the standard wine bottle size was set at 750 milliliters (ml) or approximately 25.
Wine Tasting Terms
Wine tasting terms can be confusing to those of you who are learning how to taste wine.
Wine Rating Systems Explained
Like most rating systems, whether it's used to determine the best hotel, Olympic ice-skater, or next pop singer, they're highly subjective and dependent upon a variety of factors.
Wine Guides
It is not difficult to take on a broad if rather sketchy knowledge of all the world's wine regions.
Wine Storage & Temperature
Storage/Cellar Basics
For a wine to be at its best when opened, it must be stored properly.
Wine Grape Harvest Time
August, September and October mark prime time for the annual grape harvest for most wineries in Europe and North America.
Wine Club / Gifts
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Wine Glossary
Argentina was once the world's fourth largest wine-consuming nation (behind France, Italy, and Spain) Unremarkable reds were either downed by beef-eating Argentines or exported in tankers to Europe. But in the 1980s, Dr.
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Wine Terms
Don't know what a wine term means? Use this tool for definitions of common wine terms.
Vintage Guide
Guide to the quality of the world's vintages.
Wine Glossary of Terms
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WINE TERMS
Not all of them, but the most relevant and commonly used terms during wine discussions. As I find, or think of, more I will update this page.
Wine: For its lower acidity, the wine is harmonious and softer, mid-rich with pleasant aromas. During last one hundred years, Müller Thurgau has extended in northern wine-growing areas so that it belongs to the basic varieties today.
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Wine Lexicon
Accessible
Readiness in a wine that usually requires aging
Acetic
A sour or vinegary smell or taste. See also Vinegary.
Wine Tips and Tricks
11 Most-Asked Questions About Wine
With the 11th anniversary of the Tastings column, here are answers to the 11 most-asked questions from readers.
Wine Articles
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Wine Lingo
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Acidity: Describes a tart or sour taste in the mouth when total acidity of the wine is high. "Tart" and "twangy" are two descriptors for acidity.
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Wine Tasting Terms
Accessible, approachable Easy to drink, harmonious.
Wine press: (see Press)
Wine thief: A long tube used for taking samples of wine from barrels.
Yeast: Organisms that issue enzymes which trigger the fermentation process; yeasts can be natural or commercial.
Wine: The fermented juice of grapes.
Woody: Strong bouquet of wood (oak) in wine. Not necessarily unpleasant, but possibly very obvious.
Yeast: Single-cell organisms that convert grape sugar into ethyl alcohol.
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Robert Parker's rating system employs a 50-100 point quality scale:
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Wine tasting - The sensory evaluation of wine, encompassing more than taste, but also mouthfeel, aroma, and colour.
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Wine: Natural drink obtained by the fermenting of grape must.
White: Classic style of light wine, with plenty of yellow shades running to greenish and golden hues.
WINE THIEF
Sampling tube made from clear glass or plastic tube having a narrowed opening at either end.
Wine Guide: Food & Wine
When it comes to food and wine pairings, the possibilities are, of course, endless. But, the good news is that there are no right or wrong answers.
Wine and Spirit Education Trust
The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) provides high-quality training in wines and spirits from its base in London to centres across the UK and internationally.
A Wine Taster's Glossary
by Barbara Ensrud
Wine tasters love to talk about wine, and they often use terms and descriptions that can be a bit confusing or intimidating to beginners.
Big Wine
One having strong flavor and full body, to serve with flavorsome food.
Body
The viscosity or "feeling" of a wine in the mouth--which is related in part to its alcohol content. A wine may have a thin, medium, full, or heavy body.
Ice Wine
This is an intense desert wine that has been made from very ripe grapes (without Botrytis) that were frozen on the vine. The frozen water is removed during pressing, leaving a very sweet must. In German it is known as "eiswein.
Jug Wine
Term used primarily in California to describe the most basic sort of generic table wine, an American counterpart to vin ordinaire in Europe.
Grand wine :
This corresponds to the first blended wine from the best selections of a Bordeaux "grand cru" (great wine)
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Wine & Food Advisory
from the Melting Pot of the Pacific Randy Caparoso may be familiar to wine buffs across the country as the longtime, multi-award winning wine director and founding partner of the Roy's restaurant group (from 1988 to 2001).
Wine Lexicon
Merlot - (Mare-low)
Very good red-wine grape, a key player in the Bordeaux blend, more recently grown as a varietal in its own right, especially in California and, increasingly, Washington State.
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The medical profession has recognized the healthful and nutritive properties of wine for thousands of years.
Wine grades in France
Wines in France are categorized under the following wine grades:
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Wine Country extends from the California's central coast up north into Napa and Sonoma County. Though the land attributed to Wine Country had been farmed since 8000 B.C. by Native American tribes,...
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Wine has unpleasant "wet cardboard" taste/smell. Reason is thought to be chemical changes in the wine caused by inadequately sterilized cork stopper inserted at bottling source.
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Wine of Origin
Legislation controls the division of South African winelands into official wards, districts and regions and the granting of estate status to the farms that want it.
Wine blended from more than one vintage. This allows the vintner to keep a house style from year to year. Most Champagnes and sparkling wines are nonvintage. Also, Sherry and the nonvintage Ports, the tawnies and the rubies.
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Red wine variety found in Italy, France and surrounding Balkan region. Used to make an aromatic, robust varietal wine with moderate aging potential.
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sparkiling wine made by the champagne method
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The California Wine Club
Since 1990 has been introducing wine enthusiasts to California's best "mom & pop" wineries.
Interesting Wine Facts & Definitions
The Irish believe that fairies are extremely fond of good wine. The proof of the assertion is that in the olden days royalty would leave a keg of wine out for them at night.
" Acidity an important structural component in wine which adds freshness and contributes to its tart, sour taste. Total acidity is measured by pH, which gets lower as the acidity increases.
Nouveau - Literally 'new' in French, this term is used to describe the first wine of each vintage, Beaujolais Nouveau.
Wine Terms For The Novice
ACETIC ACID: All wines contain acetic acid, or vinegar, but usually the amount is quite small--from 0.03 percent to 0.06 percent--and not perceptible to smell or taste. Once table wines reach 0.
Wine Events Planner
WEP, a dba of Tasters Guild/NY successfully organizes and executes events for a wide variety of corporations, organizations and individuals. From intimate wine-maker dinners to large-scale tastings.
Wine
That sometimes magnificent alcoholic beverage produced from fermented grape juice is known as wine, or as vino in Italy.
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Wine Terms
ABBOCCATO
Italian for "lightly sweet". This refers to wines which contain low amounts of residual sugar.
ABOCADO
The Spanish term for "semisweet".
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