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Glossary

Get to know the terms for wine. An easy, thorough explanation of the most important wine terms.

A
  • Acidity
    Different acidities
    of wine
  • Ageing and
        maturing

    The warrior's rest
  • Alcoholic
        fermentation

    What's boiling in the wine vat?
  • Alcoholic
        strength

    Counting in percentages
  • Ampelography
    The identikit of the vine

    B

  • Balance
    The puzzle solved
  • Barrels
        and barriques

    Shut in the cellar
  • Bitterness
    A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Botrytis Cinerea:
        Noble Rot

    Sometimes an attack is welcome
  • Bottling
    Ready for the bottle

    C

  • Carbon dioxide
    All gas
  • Carbon maceration
    The secret of "vin nouveau"
  • Clarification
    Opposites attract
  • Classic
    A term with many meanings
  • Cork and corks
    Yes or no to cork?
  • Cryoextraction
    White wines from cold
  • Cuvee, cru and
        other gallicisms

    The secret of new wine

    D

  • Decanting
    A breath of air
  • Deposit
    Wines with sediment
  • Destemming,
        crushing
        and pressing

    How grapes become must
  • Diseases
    Prevention is the key
  • Distillation
    No head or tail
  • Dried grapes
    From the vine to the mat: how grapes are dried

  • F
  • Filtration
    A question of microns

    G

  • Grape
    What a lovely epicarp!
  • Grape ripening
    The life of the vine

    H

  • Health
    Alcohol therapies

    I

  • Indigenous
    Is this vine native to the country?

    L

  • Label
    DOCG, DOC and IGT

    M

  • Malolactic
        fermentation

    From bad to good
  • Matching
    Choosing by 'method' or personal taste?
  • Must
    Before it turns to wine

    O

  • Organic wine
    Chemicals? No thanks!
  • Oxygen
    Little breaths

    P

  • Perfume, aroma
        and bouquet

    Primary, secondary and tertiary; so they develop
  • Phylloxera
    The great plague of the 19th century
  • Polyphenolics
    From the colour to the taste: they are responsible
  • Pruning
    Cutting for quality

  • R
  • Regulating
        production

    Pedigree vineyards
  • Rootstocks, clones
        and rootlings

    The ideal vine: a combination of different elements

    S

  • Saltiness
    The salt of the wine
  • Sparkling wines
        and bottles

    From the Magnum to the Nebuchadnezzar
  • Sugars
    Only glucose and fructose
  • Sweetness
    Only on the tip of the tongue

    T

  • Tanks
    Large-scale second fermentation

    V

  • Vine-treating
        system

    Forms of vine
  • Vitis Vinifera
    A little botany to understand the vine

    W

  • Wine (composition)
    What we drink, by nature and by lawe
  • Wines apart from
        meals

    Special in name and nature
  • Work in the
        vineyards

    Nurturing the vines

    Y

  • Yeasts
    Without them there is no fermentation

    Z

  • Zoning
    Searching for the ideal terroir



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