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 | | |
Click the relevant letter below for
other terms and words
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