Wine Glossary

Wine with an excess or lack of one or more components, which is thus imbalanced in sensorial analysis.

A type of wine which leaves a film on the wineglass and which is smooth on the palate. (CREAMY) The term is applied to wines which are both full and smooth.

Describes the taste and smell of defective wines.

Term used for unharvested or second-flowering grapes that do not have sufficient time to ripen. By extension the same term can be used to refer to wines that taste or smell sour like unripe grapes.