Saying a wine is ripe indicates a high alcohol content and/or jam, raisin, or prune flavors which come from very ripe grapes. It can also be applied to wines whose flavors have reached their optimum levels wherein a proper balance has been achieved.
On Italian wines, riserva is used to designate wines that have been held for three to four years in cask prior to bottling.
French term for the deep and clear color found in the red wines of Chambertin, Burgundy.
It is currently a common practice to graft budwood from a vine having desirable characteristics onto specific roots from another variety having other characteristics (specifically pest resistance). After the great phylloxera devastation of the last century...
A wine which has a slight pink tint which comes from either the addition of small quantities of red wine or from time spent in contact with the red skins of grapes from which a small quantity of the red tint is extracted.
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