Wine

Wine

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

Industry: Beverages

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Bottled by

Beverages; Wine

Means the wine could have been purchased ready-made and simply bottled by the brand owner, or made under contract by another winery. When the label reads "produced and bottled by" or "made and ...

Bouquet

Beverages; Wine

The smell that a wine develops after it has been bottled and aged. Most appropriate for mature wines that have developed complex flavours beyond basic young fruit and oak aromas.

Brawny

Beverages; Wine

Used to describe wines that are hard, intense, tannic and that have raw, woody flavors. The opposite of elegant.

Brettanomyces (brett)

Beverages; Wine

A spoilage yeast that can cause what are commonly described as barnyard aromas and flavours in a wine. Some people feel that, in small amounts, it can add a pleasant spicy, leathery component or ...

Field blend

Beverages; Wine

When a vineyard is planted to several different varieties and the grapes are harvested together to produce a single wine, the wine is called a field blend.

A technique for clarifying wine using agents such as bentonite (powdered clay), gelatin or egg whites, which combine with sediment particles and cause them to settle to the bottom, where they can be ...