The aftertaste of a wine.

A tasting term used to describe how a wine feels on your palate.

The main acid in grapes that gives wine its flavor and promotes aging.

When a wine tastes and smells like fresh fruit.

"Big" wines that are very flavorful and alcoholic.

"Half-dry." this is often used to describe sweet, sparkling wines.

Adding oxygen to wine to soften or mellow some flavors.

The year a wine is bottled.

From the French word "terre," which means "earth," this refers to the land that a wine comes from and accounts for the soil, climate, and topography there.

Unlike a blend, a varietal is a wine made from just one grape and named after it.

The natural compounds in wine that give it a bitter, drying, or astringent flavor and mouth feel.

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Wine that feels smooth in your mouth.

Wine that's gone bad because it's bee exposed to too much air.

Wine that's made with organic grapes, without pesticides, herbicides, and any synthetic ingredients.

When a wine has woody notes. it can present itself in flavors and aromas like popcorn, toast, and butter.

A flavor or aroma descriptor.

Like the bouquet or aroma, this is what the wine smells like

How the wine sticks to the side of the glass when you sip or swirl

When the wine has notes of fresh herbs, underripe grapes, or fruits grown in a cool climate.

Sweeter wines that incorporate brandy during fermentation.

The process of making wine. it turns grape juice into alcohol.

When the wine tastes a bit like soil

when a wine is not sweet and has less than .2% of unfermented sugars. Like "brut" in French.

To pour wine from it's bottle into another vessel, letting it aerate and the sediment to settle

A wine that comes in a bottle with a cork stopper.

The...color.

It also indicates a wine's age and quality

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The French word for dry in reference to Champagne and sparkling wines.

Like aeration, this is just the process of letting wine meet oxygen to better release all of its flavors

A pretentious way of referring to complex flavors and aromas in an old wine

The mix of a wine's sugar and alcohol content that makes the drink feel thick (full-bodied) or crisp (light-bodied) on your palate

a wine made from more than one type of grape

The smell of wine

What happens to sugars that are fermented by yeast

Like in lemonade, the acidity in a bottle of wine is the liveliness and crispness of flavor that activates your salivary glands and makes you pucker