Acronym for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
A wine is defined balanced when every component of it, appearance, nose and mouth is in the right proportion and thus in harmonious balance (Veronelli). The balance occurs making wine rotate on theÂ…
Baltahazar is the second largest bottle in the family of large Champagne bottles, bigger than a Salmanazar, but smaller than a Nabuchodonosor. It contains 8 magnum or 16 bottles of 0.75 l.
It is since the second half of the XIX century the most representative and widespread native grape variety of wine production in Piedmont and in particular the provinces of Asti and AlessandriaÂ…
For tasting, a wine is said bare if, of the three phases between tasting and swallow (first tasting, second tasting and final), the second stage is missing. This is due to the lack of depth,Â…
A wine barrel is a rounded wooden container, used for storing, aging, give flavour and sometimes make ferment excellent table wines. Size, age, type of wood, toasting level, duration and maturityÂ…
A wine barrel is a wooden keg of variable capacity from 25 to 200 liters.
A "barricato" wine has the aroma and flavour of the wood in which it is aged. This allows wine to age slowly through a redox process facilitated by the wood fibers. Type: some types of wood forÂ…
A "barricato" wine was aged in barriques at the end of the fermentation process. The aging in barriques gives wine a deep colour and softens its tannins. When the oenologist determines that theÂ…
See Brix.
It is a simple, fresh, fruity and cheap red wine from the Beaujolais, a region of southern France. The annual appearance of Beaujolais nouveau is the first wine of the year and is celebratedÂ…
German word meaning "grapes harvested individually". This classification of Prädikat is above Kabinett, Spätlese and Auslese, but below Eiswein and Trockenbeerenauslese. The B. wines are made withÂ…
Sometimes wineries assign a number of container (bin) or barrel (cask) to a certain batch of wine, then a label like "Bin 707 Cabernet", "Private Bin" or "Cask 23 Cabernet Sauvignon". Consumers whoÂ…
1. Bitter is the taste of an unpleasant wine, in contrast with sweet. 2. Wine featured by Amarone
"Blanc de blancs" is a French term for a white wine made entirely from white grapes. Used most of all for Champagne and sparkling wines.
The French term (white of blacks) refers to a white wine made entirely from red grapes. The rosé wine is also made, in part, in this way, and many Californian rosé wines are marketed under the…
In blind tasting, the taster ignores the type, the origin and the identity of a wine. The blind tastings are done so that the label does not influence the impression of the taster. It is alsoÂ…
It is said that a wine has body (or that is bodied) when its structure has particular importance for the harmonic richness of alcohol and extractive matter. The wines may be described asÂ…
Known also as noble rot, it is a parasitic fungus that can become an unwanted guest in vines attacking grapes clusters. It can cause two different types of infection: the gray rot, which causes theÂ…
It is said that a wine is bottled at the origin if it is bottled exactly in the area of origin. Effectively, for a wine "bottled at the origin", both the winery and the vineyard must findÂ…
"Bottled by" is an inscription that appears on the label of the cheapest bottles of wine and reports the name of the company that has bottled the wine.
For Bouquet we mean the agreeable smell essence that comes from wine.It depends on: 1. origin (primary bouquet) 2. fermentation conditions (secondary bouquet) 3. age and storage conditions of theÂ…
French: "flower bunch"; the complex aroma and scent of the smell sensations of a wine; currently, some authors consider that the bouquet is given solely by post–fermentative tertiary aromas that…
Native of Provence, is now grown exclusively in Piedmont. A peculiar feature is its intense scent of roses. Being ideal for the production of sweet wines, because it has a high content of naturalÂ…
It is the system used in the United States to measure the sugar content of grapes and wine. Each degree of Brix is equivalent to a gram of sugar per 100 grams of must. The system is named after itsÂ…
Together with Barolo it is the Italian red wine with greater longevity. Brunello di Montalcino is a variety of the Sangiovese Grosso red grape variety, grown in the province of Siena in Tuscany.Â…
It is a French word meaning "pure", for the Community legislation it is a wine whose residual sugar content is below the 15g/l. It is in the lower part of the ascending scale used to indicateÂ…
Globules of carbon dioxide that rise in the surface of frizzante wines or sparkling wines. In general, the smaller and more persistent the bubbles are, the better the sparkling wine is.
The body that regulates the wine industry in the United States. Instead of the Institut National des Appellations d»Origine (INAO) in France, the B.A.T.F. rules only and does not promote the wine…
With this term, we define wines that have a burnt taste (for having stayed in badly vinified barrels or for the must cooked at too high temperature).
The "buttery" adjective means that the wine calls for a pleasant feeling of melted butter. It is a property of wine that is finishing or just finished malolactic fermentation.
