Back palate: It really is as easy as it sounds. Once the wine gets past the initial taste sensation, it will sit at the back of the mouth. The taste sensations will then be slightly different. Baked: If you feel like this after a bottle of the good stuff, apologise to nobody. They will forgive you in time. It’s quite likely you’ve just had what in wine lingo is known as a “baked” wine, ie one which has so much alcohol in it that it [...]

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Accessible: Not necessarily the bottle within arm’s reach, an “acccessible” wine is one considered to be easy to drink, without too much acid. There are some, of course, who would argue that if it’s wet, it’s accessible. Acid: Remember the 70s? Not many do. Young people these days consider acid to be that bitter after-taste which makes its way into a bottle of wine. Acid-adjustment: It really would be a shame to see any wine go to waste, which is why winemakers have found a [...]

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