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
HALF BOTTLES
These have the same size cork for half the volume of wine. Oxidation and ageing therefore proceed significantly faster than with larger bottles. Given the choice, buy the larger bottles for long-term cellaring. Dessert wines of very high must weight can last a long time even in half bottles.
