Glossary Flashcards
Abboccato
medium dry wine 1.2%
Alberello
Head training or bush training
Amabile
mED SWEET WINE 4.5%
Annata
Vintage
Appassimento
Drying grapes before vinification
Arele
Graticci
Auslese
Scelto, Alto Adige term for wines min 11.5% alc
Baroleggia
Aged Barbera takes on Barolo characteristics
Battonnage
Stirring lees
Biotype
slightly diverse grape
Bora
Cole winter wind from eastern europe
Bordeaux Mixture
copper-sulfate mix applied to vines to prevent fungus
Botti
Large neutral slovenian oak casks
Bricco
Superior vinyard site on a Piemonte hill
Calanchi
Bare and arid clay based rocks formed from water erosion
Cappuccina
Variation of Guyoot system used in CVP steep slopes
Caranto
thin clacerous clay layer under clay topsoil
Chiaretto
Rose wine in Bordalino
Chiarifica
lets chilled grape juice settle before fermentation
Cold soak
a cold soak pre- fermentation maceration to extract fruit aromas without tannins
cold stabilized
Chilling wines so tartrate crystals can be removed before bottling
Colli
hills
Collio
hillside
Conca di Bolzano
geological basin at foot of the alps
Cruase
brand name given to sparkling roses in Oltrepo Pavvae methodo classico DOCG
Dunkel
Dark. Refers to very dark wines made from Lagrein in Alto Adige/Sudtirol
Fermo
Still wine
Fletri
Passito
Flysch of COrmons
Soils compromising alternating layers of sandstone and calcerous marls
Galls
Abnormal swelling of pant tissue