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

Silky

Wine Tasting Term

Some of the best red wines taste almost silky. It requires age, so that the tannins are less dominant than they are in young reds. Also called Velvety.

Personal Wine logs

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