WINE LOVERS GLOSSARY There are many different terms and words used relating to wine and wine production, the following is a glossary of some of these. For ease of access I have created different pages for the various letters of the alphabet.
| Race : | Sharpness of a wine | | |
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. | | |
Regional Grape Varieties : | Association of grape varieties authorized or recommended on a plot of land. | | |
Smoothess : | The degree to which a wine is well-rounded and rich. | | |
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. | | |
Sour : | Wine which has turned into vinegar or which is in the process of doing so due to an excessive acidity. | | |
Staves : | Pieces of wood made out of planks of oak split by hand and dried naturally; they are used to make the casks. | | |
Syrupy : | Sweet wine with more than 17g of residual sugar | | |
Tart : | Wine whose taste is similar to that of vinegar. | | |
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. | | |
Tastevin : | Silver cup which is used for wine tasting, especially in Bourgogne | | |
Tired : | Said of a wine that has lost all of its qualities either at the time it was bottled or during transport. | | |
Vigneron : | Person who devoted to growing vines and making wine | | |
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. | | |
Yeast batch : | Microscopic mushrooms which encourage alcoholic fermentation; these yeast batches are “indigenous” | | |
Yeso : | In Spain, this powder which is rich in gypsum is used for the settling of certain wines | | |
Young : | A wine which is not yet mature and needs to be left to age. | | |
Yuzhnoberezhny : | Ukranean wine which is concentrated and rich in alcohol drawn from the saperavi | | |
Zikhron-Yaacov : | Israeli vine grown on the slopes of Mount Carmel. | | |
Zilavartea : | Vine which is the origin of Macedonian white wines | | |
Zitsa : | Very mountainous region in the north of Greece, which produces a wine which merits attention | | |
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