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.
Rotling is a German term for wines which have been made by mixing red and white grapes. Famous varieties of these wines include Schillerwein (a speciality of Württemberg), Badisch Rotgold (from Baden - made by mixing Rölander -Pinot Gris- and Spätburgunder...
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