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Acetic acid Acid Acidic Acidity Acrid Aeration Aftertaste Aggressive Albarino Alcohol Alcohol by volume Alcoholic Aleatico Alicante Bouschet Aligote Alsace Alto Adige Amarone American oak American viticultural area Amontillado Ampelography Appearance Appellation Appellation Controlee Appellation d'origine controlee Aroma Astringent Auslese Austere Awkward Backbone Backward Balance Balthazar Bandol Banyuls Barbaresco Barbera Bardolino Barolo Barrel fermented Barsac Beaujolais Beaumes-de-Venise Beaune Beerenauslese Bereich Bin number Bite Bitter Blanc de blancs Blanc de noirs Blunt Body Bordeaux Botrytis Botrytis cinerea Bottle sickness Bottled by Bouquet Bourgogne Brawny Briary Bright Brilliant Brix Browning Brunello Brunello di Montalcino Brut Burnt Buttery Cabernet Franc Cabernet Sauvignon Cahors Carbonic maceration Carignan Cask number Cava Cedary Cellared by Chablis Chambourcin Champagne Chancellor Chaptalization Charbono Chardonnay Charmat Chasselas Chateau Chateauneuf-du-Pape Chelois Chenin Blanc Chewy Chianti Cigar box Cinsaut Claret Classico Clean Clone Clos Closed Cloudiness Cloying Coarse Cold stabilization Collioure Complexity Concord Corbieres Corked Cornas Cosecha Cote Rotie Coteaux du Languedoc Cotes-du-Rhone Cotes-du-Ventoux Crianza Cru Classe Crush Cuvee Decanting Delicate Demi-sec Denominacion de Origen Denominazione di Origine Controllata Dense Depth Dirty Disgorgement Dolcetto Domaine Dosage Dry Drying out Dumb Early harvest Earthy Edelfaule Einzellage Eiswein Elegant Empty Enology Erzeugerabfullung Estate-bottled Ethyl acetate Extract Extra-dry Fading Fat Faugeres Fendant Fermentation Field blend Filtering Fining Finish Fino Flabby Flat Fleshy Flinty Floral, flowery Fortified Foxy Free-run juice French Colombard French oak Fresh Frizzante Fruity Fume Blanc Furmint Gamay Garnacha Gattinara Gewurztraminer Graceful Grand Cru, Grand Cru Classe Grapey Grassy Graves Green Green harvest Grenache Grip Grosslage Grown, produced and bottled Gruner Veltliner Halbtrocken Half-bottle Hard Harmonious Harsh Haut-Medoc Hazy Heady Hearty Herbaceous Hermitage Hollow Hot Imperial Jeroboam Jurancon Kabinett Languedoc Late harvest Leafy Lean Lees Legs Length Limousin Lingering Lively Loire Lush Maceration Macon Made and bottled by Madeira Maderized Madiran Magnum Malbec Malic Malolactic fermentation Malvasia Manzanilla Marechal Foch Margaux Marsanne Mataro Mature Mavrodaphne Meaty Medoc Mercaptans Meritage Merlot Methode champenoise Methuselah Minervois Mise en bouteille Mosel, Moselle Mourvedre Muller-Thurgau Murky Muscadet Muscat Must Musty Nebbiolo Nebuchadnezzar Negociant Noble rot Nonvintage Nose Nouveau Nutty Oaky Off-dry Oloroso Optima Orvieto Oxidized Passito Pauillac Peak Penedes Perequita Perfumed Petillant Petit Verdot Petite Sirah Ph Phylloxera Piemonte Pinot Blanc Pinot Gris Pinot Meunier Pinot Noir Pinotage Pomerol Potent Pouilly-Fuisse Pouilly-Fume Pressing Priorato Private reserve Produced and bottled by Provence Pruny Puckery Pungent Qualitatswein mit Pradikat Racking Raisiny Raw Recioto Reduced Rehoboam Reserva Residual sugar Rheingau Rhone Ribera del Duero Rich Riesling Rioja Ripasso Riserva Robust Rose Rosso di Montalcino Round Roussanne Rustic Saint-Chinian Saint-Emilion Saint-Estephe Salmanazar Sancerre Sangiovese Sauternes Sauvignon Blanc Savennieres Scheurebe Semillon Seyval Blanc Shiraz Smoky Soft Sommelier Spanna Spatlese Spicy Spumante Stale Stalky Stemmy Structure Subtle Supple Sur lie Sylvaner Syrah Tanky Tannin Tart Tartaric acid Tartrates Tempranillo Terroir Thin Tight Tinny Tinto Tired Toasty Tocai Friulano Tokay Tokay Aszu Torrontes Trebbiano Trentino-Alto Adige Trocken Trockenbeerenauslese Tuscany Valpolicella Valtellina Varietal Vegetal Velvety Vendange Vendimia Veneto Veraison Verdicchio Vernaccia di San Gimignano Vidal Blanc Vignoles Villard Blanc Vin de Pays Vin Gris Vinho Verde Viniculture Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Vinous Vintage Vintage date Vinted by Vintner Vintner-grown Viognier Viticultural area Viticulture Vitis Vinifera Volatile Acidity Vouvray Wein White Riesling White Zinfandel Yeast Zinfandel Pinot Grigio
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Many of the definitions in this glossary are from the Wine Lovers' Glossary on WineLoversPage.com and are used with permission by Robin Garr its creator.
rev. 01/10
Many of the definitions in
this glossary are from the Wine Lovers' Glossary on WineLoversPage.com
and are used with permission by Robin Garr its creator.
