Wine Tasting: A Practical Handbook on Tasting and Tastings |
Common terms and phrases
acidity Alsace amateur areas balance Beaujolais bitter blended body Bordeaux bottle-age bouquet and flavour burgundy cabernet cask cellar champagne character characteristics Châteauneuf claret classic connoisseur cork Corton-Charlemagne Côte Côte de Nuits crisp Cyril Ray deep depth of colour dessert wines detected district dry to medium-dry earthy elegant example experienced taster extract fairly fermentation finish firm fortified wines fresh fruity full-bodied fullish Gewürztraminer glass goût grape aroma grape varieties grower heavy high in alcohol immature lacking less light Mâcon maderised Masters of Wine mature Médoc Moselle mouth nose overtones palate pale particularly pinot produces range of wines red wine Rhône rich riesling ripe rosé Sauternes scented sense sherry slightly smell and taste soft soil sparkling Spätlese spittoons style sweet table wine tannin tasting card tasting room Tokay trade tastings traminer trockenbeerenauslese usually vine vineyard Vinho Verde vinous vintage port white wine yellow young wine