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Wine

Referring to any alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of grapes.

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Wine

Hazy

Beverages; Wine

Used to describe a wine that has small amounts of visible matter. A good quality if a wine is unfined and unfiltered.

Heady

Beverages; Wine

Used to describe high-alcohol wines.

Produced and bottled by

Beverages; Wine

Indicates that the winery crushed, fermented and bottled at least 75 percent of the wine in the bottle.

Pruny

Beverages; Wine

Having the flavour of overripe, dried-out grapes. Can add complexity in the right dose.

Racking

Beverages; Wine

The practise of moving wine by hose from one container to another, leaving sediment behind. For aeration or clarification.

Raisiny

Beverages; Wine

Having the taste of raisins from ultra-ripe or overripe grapes. Can be pleasant in small doses in some wines.

Raw

Beverages; Wine

Young and undeveloped. A good descriptor of barrel samples of red wine. Raw wines are often tannic and high in alcohol or acidity.

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