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WINE LOVERS GLOSSARY
Reproduced by kind permission of www.worldmarechal.com
| Race : |
Sharpness of a wine |
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Racking of the
must : |
Stage in the wine-making
process which consists of eliminating, just before fermentation, the deposit from the must
of a wine made from "white" grapes. |
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| Regional Grape
Varieties : |
Association of grape
varieties authorized or recommended on a plot of land. |
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| Smoothess : |
The degree to which a
wine is well-rounded and rich. |
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| Sorbic acid : |
Acid used as anti-septic and
anti-oxidizing agent. Particularly used in sweet white wines with the purpose of avoiding
the risks of secondary refermentation. |
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| Sour : |
Wine which has turned
into vinegar or which is in the process of doing so due to an excessive acidity. |
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| Staves : |
Pieces of wood made out
of planks of oak split by hand and dried naturally; they are used to make the casks. |
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| Syrupy : |
Sweet wine with more
than 17g of residual sugar |
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| Tart : |
Wine whose taste is
similar to that of vinegar. |
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| Tartaric acid : |
Acid of which the
quantity in the wine diminishes if the Summer is very hot. It is sometimes necessary to
add must to increase the level of acidity in a dull wine. |
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| Tastevin : |
Silver cup which is used
for wine tasting, especially in Bourgogne |
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| Tired : |
Said of a wine that has
lost all of its qualities either at the time it was bottled or during transport. |
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| Vigneron : |
Person who devoted to growing vines and
making wine |
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| Yeast addition : |
An operation which
consists of seeding the yeast strains (which are carefully selected according to the
vinification one wants to obtain ) with the must. |
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| Yeast batch : |
Microscopic mushrooms
which encourage alcoholic fermentation; these yeast batches are "indigenous" |
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| Yeso : |
In Spain, this powder
which is rich in gypsum is used for the settling of certain wines |
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| Young : |
A wine which is not yet
mature and needs to be left to age. |
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| Yuzhnoberezhny : |
Ukranean wine which is
concentrated and rich in alcohol drawn from the saperavi |
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| Zikhron-Yaacov : |
Israeli vine grown on
the slopes of Mount Carmel. |
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| Zilavartea : |
Vine which is the origin
of Macedonian white wines |
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| Zitsa : |
Very mountainous region
in the north of Greece, which produces a wine which merits attention |
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