Wine Descriptions

Wine cheat sheet simple names and terms what they mean and myths debunked.

Wine descriptions. You can see a larger wine chart here and even order it as a poster from Wine Folly. Read though over 125 wine descriptions to learn about all of the wine varieties and learn which might appeal to your palate. Aeration the deliberate addition of oxygen to round out and soften a wine.

Elegant is one of the wine descriptions often used to describe a wine with a great mouthfeel a wine that is pretty complete and has no hard edges. Corked the wine is spoilt due to a fault in the cork youll know immediately smells like wet cardboard. Wet dog is often used to describe the damp musty moldy smell that comes from a corked wine.

Acidity the liveliness and crispness in wine that activates our salivary glands. In Champagne creamy is a favored characteristic that is associated with the famous bottles of bubblysuch as Krug. For information about wine growing regions mentioned please see the country descriptions.

Red Wine Glass Choice. The list is a compilation of what I think are the most stupid wine descriptions published by some of the 100 point wine writers. But take a look and see if you the think the description of the wine matches the actual wine or for that.

Tasters attempt to give an objective description of the wines taste often taking a systematic approach to tasting casual enthusiasts. Check out the complete list here. Also an ideal companion for manic-depression.

The use of wine tasting descriptors allows the taster to qualitatively relate the aromas and flavors that the taster experiences and can be used in assessing the overall quality of wineWine writers differentiate wine tasters from casual enthusiasts. This is the only wine descriptor on this list that is 99 guaranteed to indicate a flaw in the wine. Aftertaste The taste or flavors that linger in the mouth after wine is tasted spit or swallowed.