Wine Dictionary

Ageing – Progressive softening of wine and the development of bouquet.

Beverage Wines – Wines with average quality and strength.

Body – Wine Quality which gives appearance of consistency and vinous strength.

Bouquet – Odour or perfume of the wine.

Brut. Of Champagne - with no added sugar or liqueur

Butt – I80 to I40 gallons of sherry or Malaga.

Cordial – Light liqueur many by the infusion of alcohol and sugar with fruit juices.

Cuvee – Contents of a cellar

Dry – Wines with no excess of sugar, opposed to sweet

Ethers – Unanalyzable components found in old wines.

Fiery – Smeared to raw spirits or raw wine

Fortifying – Adding wine spirit in port and sherry wine making

Frappe – Iced sparkling wine for the table

Must – Grape Juice before the process of fermentation

Oidium - A mildew disease of the vine.

Racking – Separating the deposit from the bright wine

Vintage Wines – Wines of High Character

Woody – Tainted wine from a defective or rotten stave in the cask