Vintner's Vocabulary

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Off-Dry

A generalized term for wines that are neither fully dry nor very sweet.

Oxidation

Potentially serious calamity that can strike grapes, grape juice and wine if they are over-exposed to oxygen, making them go brown (like a cut apple) and taste flat.