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Wine-Tasting Glossary

While tasting wine across Washington state, this wine glossary can help:

A: Acetic acid - Austere

B: Backbone - Buttery

C: Cabernet Franc - Cuvee

D: Decant - Dumb

E: Earthy - Extract

G: Gamay - Grip

H: Hard - Hot

I: Imperial - Intricate

J: Jammy - Jeroboam

L: Lanolin - Luscious

M: Maceration - Musty
    N: Nebuchadnezzar - Nouveau

O: Oaky - Oxidized

P: Peak - Puckery

R: Racking - Rustic

S: Salmanazar - Syrah

T: Tannic - Toasty

U: Ullage -

V: Vanilla - Volatile

W: Watery - Woody

Y: Yeasty

Z: Zinfandel -




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