Imperial: a Bordeaux bottle that holds eight units of 75 centiliters. Impurity: foreign material floating in the wine. Graft: to join two plans so they form one. Intensity of color: the purity of color of a wine. Intensity of smell: a wine's olfactory strength. Intensidad of taste: Graduation or scale of a wine's taste. Insipid: a bland wine lacking taste.
Jerez: a full-bodied wine covered under the certificate of quality known as the Denominaci�n de Origen Jerez-X�r�s-Sherry y Manzanilla. Jeroboam: Bottle used for wines from France's Champagne and Borgogne regions, equivalent to 4 bottles holding 75 to 80 centiliters. For wines from Bordeaux a bottle equivalent to 6 units of 75 centiliters is used. Young: wine made the same year the grapes are harvested, without aging and consumed shortly after being bottled.
Milky: Aroma that recalls dairy products and their derivatives after prolonged aging in an oak cask. Press: a shallow tank where grapes are pressed. Tear: The first wine that comes out of the fermentation tank through force of gravity, or a watery substance that forms on the side of a wine glass when the alcohol evaporates. Tears: Oily trace left on the glass by a wine rich in glycerin. Long: lasting taste. Yeast: fungi that turn the sugar in grape juice into alcohol. Remains: solid remains that form in the bottom of a cask or tank after wine ferments, or an unpleasant aroma caused by these deposits. Liqueur of expedition: small amount of wine or syrup that is added to sparkling wine and which determines its level of sweetness. Draw Liqueur de tiraje: small amount of wine or syrup added to naturally sparkling wines to trigger a second round of fermentation. Licor: sweet natural wine to which authorized wine alcohol is added, with a high alcohol content of 13.5 to 23 percent. Light: wine that is light in alcohol. Limpid: clear and transparent. Clean: wine free of sediment or floating materials and without odd taste or smell. Lira: A vertical vine that seeks the maximum light for the grapes and vine shoots. Lloro: a stage of the vine's vegetative life, after pruning, in which it secretes sap before blooming.
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