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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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Verdejo
The grape of Rueda in Castile, potentially fine and long-lived.

Verdelho
Madeira grape making excellent medium-sweet wine; in Australia, fresh soft dry wine of great character.

Verdicchio
Potentially good dry wine in central-eastern Italy.

Vermentino
Italiano, sprightly with satisfying texture and ageing capacity.

Vernaccia
Name given to many unrelated grapes in Italy. Vernaccia di San Gimignano is crisp, lively; Vernaccia di Oristano is Sherry-like.

Viognier
Ultra-fashionable Rhone grape, finest in Condrieu, less fine but still aromatic in the Midi. Good examples (and less good) grom California, Australia.

Viura
See Macabeo.
 
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