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Wine

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

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Cold stabilisation
Beverages; Wine

A clarification technique in which a wine's temperature is lowered to 32° F, causing the tartrates and other insoluble solids to precipitate.

Complexity
Beverages; Wine

An element in all great wines and many very good ones; a combination of richness, depth, flavour intensity, focus, balance, harmony and finesse.

Corked
Beverages; Wine

Describes a wine having the off-putting, musty, moldy-newspaper flavour and aroma and dry aftertaste caused by a tainted cork.

Dry
Beverages; Wine

Having no perceptible taste of sugar. Most wine tasters begin to perceive sugar at levels of 0.5 percent to 0.7 percent.

Drying out
Beverages; Wine

Losing fruit (or sweetness in sweet wines) to the extent that acid, alcohol or tannin dominate the taste. At this stage the wine will not improve.

Dumb
Alcoholic beverages; Wine

Describes a phase young wines undergo when their flavours and aromas are undeveloped. A synonym of closed.

Early harvest
Beverages; Wine

Denotes a wine made from early-harvested grapes, usually lower than average in alcoholic content or sweetness.

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