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A wine that has been flavored with herbs, fruit, flowers and spices. Examples: Vermouth, Retsina or mulled wine. Ascorbic acid An antioxidant used to prevent grape must from oxidizing. Aseptic The characteristic of a chemical (like sulfur dioxide or sorbic acid) to kill unwanted or beneficial bacteria. Assemblage
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. Dark brown color For the area of Buckley, Flintshire, Wales known as Bistre, see Buckley, Flintshire § Villages. You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding articles in French and German. (June 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions ...
Wines that are being riddled (remuage) will end up sur pointe with the yeast sediment consolidated in the neck of the bottle. Süss German term for a sweet wine Szamorodni Hungarian wine term meaning "as it comes". A wine with a mixture of healthy and botrytis-infected grapes Száraz Hungarian wine term for a dry wine
A place where grape vines are grown for wine making purposes. Vintage The year in which a particular wine's grapes were harvested. When a vintage year is indicated on a label, it signifies that all the grapes used to make the wine in the bottle were harvested in that year. Viticulture The cultivation of grapes. Not to be confused with viniculture.
Plaque about the legend of the origin of the word "Bistro" at La Mère Catherine, 6, place du Tertre, Paris.(English: On March 30, 1814, the Cossacks were the first to launch their very famous "bistro" here and, on the hill, the worthy ancestor of our bistros was born. 180th anniversary.
The individual nature of tasting means that descriptors may be perceived differently among various tasters. [1] The following is an incomplete list of wine tasting descriptors and a common meaning of the terms. These terms and usage are from Karen MacNeil's 2001 edition of The Wine Bible unless otherwise noted.
An Italian sommelier (F.I.S.A.R.) with a tastevin around his neckA sommelier (UK: / ˈ s ɒ m əl j eɪ, s ɒ ˈ m ɛ l i eɪ / SOM-əl-yay, som-EL-ee-ay, US: / ˌ s ʌ m əl ˈ j eɪ / SUM-əl-YAY, French: ⓘ), or wine steward, is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, normally working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine service as well as wine and food pairing.
English speakers seem to have discovered the concept through oenology and have considered it as a wine term which in its typical usage translates as "vineyard name" or "named vineyard". [1] Typically, a lieu-dit is the smallest piece of land which has a traditional vineyard name assigned to it. [ 2 ]