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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


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Refosco
Possibly a synonym for Mondeuse of Savoie. Produces deep, flavour some age-worthy wines, esp in warmer climates.

Rieling
It is a strange irony that Riesling is making its re-entrance on the world-stage through, as it were, the back door. No serious commentator disagrees that Riesling stands level with Chardonnay. They are the world’s best white wine grapes, in diametrically opposite styles. While Chadonnay gives Full-bodied but aromatically discreet wines, Riesling offers a range from steely to voluptuous, always positively perfumed, and with ageing potential far beyond any Chandonnay. Germany is the great Riesling protagonist and makes the greatest Riesling in all styles. Yet its popularity is being revived, of all places, South Australia, where this cool-climate grape does its best, in body at least, to ape Chardonnay. Holding the middle ground, with forceful but still steely wines, is Austria. Meanwhile lovers of light and fragrant, often piercingly refreshing Rieslings have the Mosel as their exclusive playground. Also grown in Alsace (But absurdly grown nowhere else in France), Pacifid NW, Ontario, California, and South Africa.

Roussanne:
Rhone grape of great finess, now popping up in California, Australia. Can age well.

Rulander:
Obsolescent German name for PINOT G used for sweeter wines.
 
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