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
CLARITY - BRILLIANCE
Cloudiness in a white wine can be unattractive but need not affect the flavour. In these instances it can arise from a protein instability or other causes. Other forms of hazes in both whites and reds can arise from microbiological instability or the effects of trace metals such as iron or copper and may indicate a damaged wine. (See also Sediment/deposits.)
