Glossary

The description used for the freshly pressed grape juice prior to fermentation.

Describes a change in the key substances of the vine. Grapevines can be deliberately mutated during specific breeding. Yet there is also the occurrence of natural breeding, and it often comes to mutations over a period of many decades or centuries, such as the Pinot varieties.

This inexact term is often applied to wines produced with the least possible intervention during the process of vinification. 

Large bottle size with a capacity of 15 litres.

Undistinguishable wine, without any specific aromatic or flavoured characteristics.

After or during an extensive wine tasting, it is often the case that a simple, neutral wine is served to allow the strained taste buds to recover and relax, thus preparing the palate for further wine consuming pleasure.

Describes the taste of new, but untoasted, oak barrels

Contrary to the Old World, the New World includes the former colonies of for example North America (USA and Canada), South America (particularly Argentina and Chile), South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

A wine that is literally noble and very fine.