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Vocabulary, Nomenclature,
Lexicon, Directory, Glossary Tasting Terms, Wine
Terminology: Tasting, Wine, Vineyards
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Vocabulary - Nomenclature
- Lexicon - Directory - Glossary
Tasting Terms, Wine
Terminology: tasting, wine, vineyards |
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Decanting
Decanting a wine is the process of pouring
cellar-aged bottles into a glass
decanter, in order to leave any sediment in the original bottle
before serving. |
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Degorgement (French term)
Part of the process of making Champagne. After the neck of the
bottle has been frozen, a plug of
frozen wine containing dead
yeast from the second
fermentation
is taken out out of the bottle. |
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Delicate
A tasting term used for wine demonstrating
elegant but somewhat mild
aroma and flavour characteristics. |
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Depth, deep
A tasting term referring to a wine that fills the
mouth with an intense flavour. |
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Dessert wine
Dessert wines refers mostly to fortified wines or to
sweet white
wines of 14%
alcohol
or greater which are typically served with
dessert. Dessert wines are produced all around the world: Sauternes
(Bordeaux), Tokaji Aszú (Hungary), Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese
in Germany and Austria, Ice wine (Canada) or Commandaria (South
Africa). |
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Destemming
Destemming
is the process of removing the stems from the grape before
fermentation. |
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Devatting
Devatting consists in the process of separating the
must
from
pomace
(skins and stalks). |
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Dirty
Tasting term describing undesirable odours that can be present in a
wine. |
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Domaine (French term)
French term for a wine estate. |
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Double magnum (French term)
A double magnum is a large bottle format equivalent to four 0.75
litres bottles. |
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Doux (French term)
Doux is the French term for
sweet. |
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Downy mildew
Downy mildew is a common but devastating vine disease due to
excessive humid and warm weather conditions. |
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Dry
Dry wines have very low levels of
residual sugar. When used as a
tasting term, it also describes the lack
of a
sweet
taste in a wine when it refers to the dry, puckering sensation
the wine imparts. |
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Dumb
Tasting description referring to young wines with yet-to-develop
flavours and
aromas. |
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More about the
grape varietals
and
the Bordeaux wine region
Winemega's
tasting notes by chateau
Tasting tips: a sommeliere writes about
advanced wine topics
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