Dictionary of Wine Tasting
- + Ageing Premature
- + Aromas Unpleasent
+ Breathing wines
- + Brett
- + Bottle Shock
- + Buying Cellared Wines
- + Capsules
- + Clarity Brilliance
- + Colour Hue
- + Cork Borers
- + Corked Wines
- + Corked Wines Return Of
- + Decanting
- + Half Bottles
- + Lead Residues
- + Leakers
- + Loss Of Or Unsual Flavours
- + Oxidation
- + Sediment Deposits
- + Seeping Corks
- + Temperature Of Serving
- + Travel Shock
- + Ullage
- + Wine Crystals
BREATHING WINES
This is the practice of de-corking a wine or even decanting several hours before drinking. It can help very young wines (particularly reds), more mature wines which may have developed less than pleasant smells, or slightly sprizig reds.
