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Decanting
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Describes
To slowly pour wine from the bottle into another container. Usually
a glass decanter, in order to leave any sediment in the original
bottle before serving. Almost always a treatment confined to red
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Deep/Depth |
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Describes
a wine of complexity and intense flavors, developing,
multifaceted layers of flavor. Opposite of shallow. |
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Delicate
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Used to describe light- to
medium-weight wines with good flavors with attractive characteristics.
Occasionally used to describe well made wines from the so called
"lesser grape" varieties such as Pinot Noir or Riesling. |
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Demi-sec |
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Describes
"Partly dry", sparkling wines it indicates slight to medium sweetness.
Usually slightly sweet to medium sweet.
Demi-Sec is always sweeter than Extra Dry and Brut |
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Dense |
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Describes a wine that has
concentrated aromas on the nose and palate. Usually a good sign in
young wines.
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Developed
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Mature and well developed. |
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Dessert Wine
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Describes Fortified wine or Very
sweet wine. Usually drink with Dessert. |
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Diesel |
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Wine with
diesel/fumes like Aroma due to flaw while making the wine. |
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Dirty |
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Describes wine contains odors,
foul, rank, off-putting smells A sign of poor winemaking
processes performed including bad barrels or corks. |
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Disgorgement |
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In a traditional process of the
sparkling wine production wherein frozen sediment is removed from the
neck of the bottle.
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Distinctive
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Often describes very Elegant,
refined character that sets the classic of its own. |
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Dosage
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A sparkling wine fermented in a
bottle, by adding back a small amount of wine (usually sweet), once
the yeast sediment that collects in the neck of the bottle is removed |
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Dry |
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Describes wine contains less
sugar (ess than about 0.5%). Made deliberately to possess little or no
sweetness.
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Drying out |
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Due to age
wine's fruit flavor has been diminished, less attractive and past its
prime, when the flavors are overtaken by the taste of tannin,
acid or alcohol. |
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Dull
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Wine without proper acidity or
any other interesting characters called Dull. |
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Dumb
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Describes a phase young/too cold
wines undergo when their flavors and aromas are undeveloped. A synonym
of closed.
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