A wine having no effervescence (bubbles).
The classic storage temperature is 55 degrees F. This came from the time when high quality wine was routinely stored for 20 more years in underground cellars or even in caves. If you store at 70 degrees F the wine will age faster. It's life cycle will...
This is wine from grapes which having been picked at their optimum level of maturity are dried on straw mats in the sun or are hung in lofts before they are fermented. Certain wines from the Jura Mountain area of France undergo this practice.
The stück is a traditional cask commonly found in the Rhine region of Germany and can hold the equivalent of 317 US gallons or 1200 litres.
A wine which did not complete fermentation (i.e., fermentation stopped before all of the sugar had been converted to alcohol).
According to Dr. Herbert Kaufman, a member of the Medical Board of AWARE (American Wine Alliance for Research and Education) in San Francisco, in response to an inquiry presented to him by the Wine Enthusiast magazine (Volume 7, Number 3, April 1994):...
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