Wine

Wine

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

Industry: Beverages

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Brut

Beverages; Wine

A general term used to designate a relatively dry-finished Champagne or sparkling wine, often the driest wine made by the producer.

Burnt

Beverages; Wine

Describes wines that have an overdone, smoky, toasty or singed edge. Also used to describe overripe grapes.

Buttery

Beverages; Wine

Indicates the smell of melted butter or toasty oak. Also a reference to texture, as in "a rich, buttery Chardonnay."

Fermentation of whole, uncrushed grapes in a carbon dioxide atmosphere. In practice, the weight of the upper layers of grapes in a vat will break the skins of the lowest layer; the resultant wine is ...

Estate-bottled

Beverages; Wine

A term once used by producers for those wines made from vineyards that they owned and that were contiguous to the winery "estate." Today it indicates the winery either owns the vineyard or has a ...

Ethyl acetate

Beverages; Wine

A sweet, vinegary smell that often accompanies acetic acid. It exists to some extent in all wines and in small doses can be a plus. When it is strong and smells like nail polish, it's a defect.