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Wine
Referring to any alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of grapes.
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Phylloxera
Beverages; Wine
Tiny aphids or root lice that attack Vitis vinifera roots. The disease was widespread in both Europe and California during the late 19th century, and returned to California in the 1980s.
Press wine (or pressing)
Beverages; Wine
The juice extracted under pressure after pressing for white wines and after fermentation for reds. Press wine has more flavour and aroma, deeper colour and often more tannins than free-run juice. ...
Private reserve
Beverages; Wine
This description, along with Reserve, once stood for the best wines a winery produced, but lacking a legal definition many wineries use it or a spin-off (such as Proprietor's Reserve) for rather ...
N gociant (n gociant-eleveur)
Beverages; Wine
A French wine merchant who buys grapes and vinifies them, or buys wines and combines them, bottles the result under his own label and ships them. Particularly found in Burgundy. Two well-known ...
Nonvintage
Beverages; Wine
Blended from more than one vintage. This allows the vintner to keep a house style from year to year. Many Champagnes and sparkling wines are nonvintage. Also, Sherry and the nonvintage Ports, the ...
