Category Results for: Wine Word of the Week

 

Wine Word of the Week: Appellation

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is appellation. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Controlled appellations are a method of labeling wine and designating quality that is modeled on France’s appellation controlee system. It embraces geographical delimitation and is the principle on which quality wine schemes such as the DOC […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Veraison

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is veraison. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Veraison is the word used by English speakers for that intermediate stage of grape berry development which marks the beginning of ripening, when the grapes change from the hard, green state to their softened and coloured […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Yeast

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is yeast. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Yeast, microscopic, single-celled fungi, having round to oval cells which reproduce by forming buds, are vital to the alcoholic fermentation process, which, starved of oxygen, transforms grape juice into wine. Sugars are used as an energy […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Ullage

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is ullage. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Ullage, which derives from the French ouillage, has had a variety of meanings and uses in the English-speaking wine trade. It can mean the process of evaporation of wine held in wooden containers such as a […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Decanting

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is decanting. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Decanting is the optional and controversial step in serving wine, involving pouring wine out of its bottle into another container called a decanter. The most obvious reason for decanting a wine is to separate it from […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Bouquet

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is bouquet. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Bouquet is the oft-ridiculed tasting term for the smell of a wine, particularly that of a mature or maturing wine. …. It is used loosely by many wine tasters to describe any pleasant wine smell or […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Estate bottled

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is estate bottled. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Estate bottled is a term used on labels which has a very specific meaning in the United States, where an estate-bottled wine must come from the winery’s own vineyards or those on which the winery […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Barrel aging

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is barrel aging. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Barrel maturation [the term used in this book for aging a wine in a barrel] is the wine-making operation of storing a fermented wine in wooden barrels to create ideal conditions for the components of […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Aging

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is aging. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Aging of wine is an important aspect of wine connoisseurship, and one which distinguishes wine from almost every other drink. When a fine wine is allowed to age, spectacular changes can occur which increase both its […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Brix

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is Brix. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Brix is the scale of measuring total dissolved compounds in grape juice, and therefore its approximate concentration of grape sugars. It is used in the United States and, like other scales used elsewhere, it can be […]

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