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Glossary


Wine lovers love to talk about wines, and very often they use terms and descriptions that are not always fully understandable to beginners. Wine & Taste presents here a list of terms that you will one day or another hear. Is the wine sharp or round? Is it earthly or buttery? Wine & Taste has listed below some of terms commonly used when speaking of wines.

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The following wine terms where taken off the "Pocket Wine Book" written by Hugh Johnson & Mitchell Beazley. Please visit the site: www.mitchell-beazley.com


P
Palomino, alias Lintan
Make all the best sherry but poor table wine.

Pedro Ximenez alias PX
Makes very strong wine in Montilla and Malaga. Used in blending sweet sherries. Also grown in Argentina, the Canaries, Australia, California, South Africa.

Petit (and Gros) Mansent
The secret weapon of the French Basque country: vital for Jurancon; increasingly blended elsewhere in the SW.

Pinot Blanc (Pinot Bl)
A cousin of PINOT NOIR, similar to but mildr than Chardonnay: light, fresh, fruity, not aromatic, to drink young; eg good for Italian spumante. Grown in Alsace, Northern Italy, Southern Germany, and Eastern Europe. Weissburgunder in Alsace, Northern Italy , Southern Germany, and Eastern Europe. Weissburgunder in Germany. See also Muscadet.

Pinot Gris (Pinot Gr)
At best makes rather heavy, even “thick” full-bodied whites with a certain spicy style. Can be alias Rulander (sweet) or Grauburgunder (dry) in Germany; Pinot Gritio in Italy. Also found Hungary, Slovenia, Canada, Oregon, NZ…

Pinot Noir (Pinot N)
The glory of Burgundy’s Cote d’Or, with scent, flavor, and texture unmatched anywhere. Make light wines rarely of much distinction in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungry. But now splendid results in California’s Sonoma, Carneros and Central Coast, Oregon, Ontario, Yarra Valley, Adelaide Hills, Tamania, and NZ.(Red wine)

Pinot Noir (Pinot N):
Superlative black grape (See “Grapes of red wine”) use in champagne and elsewhere (eg California, Australia) for making white, sparkling, or very pale pink “vin gris”

Pinotage
Singular S Africa grape (PINOT N X CINSAUT) Can be very fruity and can age interestingly, but often jammy.

Primitivo
S Italian grape making big, rustic wines, now fashionable because genetically identical to ZINFANDEL.
 
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