General Terms

- Acidity
- Acrid
- Aftertaste
- Aggressive
- Aging
- Alcohol Content
- Alcoholic Fermentation
- Aperitif
- Aroma
- Assertive
- Astringent
- Attractive
- Bacchus
- Balance
- Barrel Fermentation
- Big
- Bite
- Bitter
- Blush Wine
- Body
- Botrytis Cinerea
- Bouquet
- Breathe
- Buttery
- Carbonic Maceration
- Chewy
- Claret
- Closed
- Cloudy
- Cloying
- Color
- Complete
- Complex
- Concentrated
- Cooked
- Cork
- Corked
- Corkscrew
- Crisp
- Decant
- Deep
- Delicate
- Dessert Wine
- Developed
- Diffuse
- Digestif
- Dionysus
- Dry
- Dumb
- Earthy
- Elegant
- Empty
- Faded
- Fermentation
- Finish
- Flinty
- Focused
- Fortified Wine
- Fruit
- Fruity
- Grapey
- Hard
- Harsh
- Heady
- Heavy
- Hollow
- Ice Wine
- Late Harvest
- Lees
- Legs
- Light
- Magnum
- Malolactic Fermentation
- Marsala
- Murky
- Must
- Musty
- Non Varietal Wine
- Nose
- Oak
- Oaky
- Off
- Oxidized
- Palate
- Perfume
- Place Name
- Port
- Potent
- Punt
- Reserve
- Rice Wine
- Robust
- Round
- Sangria
- Sediment
- Sharp
- Sherry
- Short
- Silky
- Simple
- Skin
- Smokey
- Smooth
- Soft
- Solid
- Sparkling Wine
- Spicy
- Steely
- Sulfites
- Supple
- Sweet
- Table Wine
- Tank
- Tannins
- Tar
- Tart
- Tears
- Terroir
- Thin
- Varietal Wine
- Vat
- Velvety
- Vermouth
- Vin
- Vineyard
- Vinification
- Vino
- Vinous
- Wein
- Woody
- Yeast
- Young
- Zesty

Heavy



Wine Tasting Term
 


A wine that is heavy has very concentrated levels of alchohol, tannins, acidity and/or extract. It will taste very thick and potent, typically overly so.

Some heavy wines soften up over time or with exposure to oxygen, but others will never balance out enough to reach their full potential.

The opposite of a heavy wine is a delicate wine.
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Grapes

- Aligoté
- Barbera
- Brunello
- Cabernet Franc
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Carignane
- Carmenere
- Chambourcin
- Chardonnay
- Chenin Blanc
- Cinsault
- Columbard
- Dolcetto
- Durif
- Folle Blanche
- Gamay
- Gewuztraminer
- Grenache
- Grignolino
- Grüner Veltliner
- Malbec
- Malvasia
- Marsanne
- Melon de Bourgogne
- Merlot
- Montepulciano
- Moscofilero
- Mourvèdre
- Muller Thurgau
- Muscadelle
- Muscat
- Nebbiolo
- Norton
- Palomino
- Pedro Ximénez
- Petit Sirah
- Petit Verdot
- Pinot Blanc
- Pinot Gris
- Pinot Meunier
- Pinot Noir
- Pinotage
- Pourtgieser
- Primitivo
- Riesling
- Rousanne
- Sangiovese
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Scheurebe
- Schwarzriesling
- Semillon
- Sylvaner
- Syrah or Shiraz
- Tempranillo
- Tinta Barroca
- Tinta Cao
- Tinta Roriz
- Touriga Francesa
- Touriga Nacional
- Trebbiano
- Ugni Blanc
- Verdicchio
- Viognier
- Welschriesling
- Zinfandel