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Baked: a wine with a high alcohol content that gives the perception of stewed or baked fruit flavors. May indicate a wine from grapes that were exposed to the heat of the sun after harvesting. [5] Balanced: a wine that incorporates all its main components—tannins, acid, sweetness, and alcohol—in a manner where no one single component stands ...
Tannins are a natural preservative in wine. Un-aged wines with high tannin content can be less palatable than wines with a lower level of tannins. Tannins can be described as leaving a dry and puckered feeling with a "furriness" in the mouth that can be compared to a stewed tea, which is also very tannic.
For example, acorns of Quercus robur and Quercus petraea in Poland were found to contain 2.4–5.2% and 2.6–4.8% tannins as a proportion of dry matter, [51] but the tannins can be removed by leaching in water so that the acorns become edible. [52]
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A wine that has been flavored with herbs, fruit, flowers and spices. Examples: Vermouth, Retsina or mulled wine. Ascorbic acid An antioxidant used to prevent grape must from oxidizing. Aseptic The characteristic of a chemical (like sulfur dioxide or sorbic acid) to kill unwanted or beneficial bacteria. Assemblage
For example, the preservatives added to white wine are mainly ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and sorbic acid. [13] Ascorbic acid is used as an antioxidant, while sorbic acid is used to inhibit the growth of yeast in white wine. [3] Sorbic acid cannot be used in red wine because it can cause pollution.
A new study from UC Davis looks at the properties of red wine that result in a headache. Here's what the study says, and what it means for a wind-down drink.