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THE BOUTIQUE THE WEATHER INTERACTIVE CAMPSA GUIDE
Wine dictionary IV
by Isabelle Boix
Wine-tasting involves more than filling your nose with its bouquet and your palate with its particular flavor. The specific vocabulary of enology will teach you to express those sensations. From then on you can consider yourself a real expert. Here are some key terms.
 
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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