Wine Terms

All wines contain acetic acid or vinegar but usually the amount is quite small--from 003 percent to 006 percent--and not perceptible to smell or taste.

Wine terms. Wine terms are fun to know. Presence of oxygen will open. Residual sugarRS The unfermented sugar left over in the wine after fermentation.

The opposite of a blend. This may be fermentation or maturation or both. Also a basic concept understood and employed elsewhere.

This is the opposite of dry. You can help by adding to it. Your wine education resource on the web.

Brilliant a tasting note for wines that appear sparkling clear. Tasting Notes Selection Tips Wine Gadgets Grape Varieties Processes and Stages Tasting Methods. Essentially synonymous with blending.

The descriptive sticker or signage adhered to the side of a wine bottle. The term is usually used to denote blended wines of nonspecific origin. All wines have some traces of acetic acids which offer a vinegar scent.

Means that a wine has had contact with oak at some stage in production. Like any area of interest the wine world includes many words and phrases that may be unknown or misunderstood by people just beginning to explore wine or even those with more familiarity. Decant- The act of pouring wine into a separate container for the purpose of either a separating older wine from sediment or b aerating the wine to introduce oxygen.