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Your Ontario Wine Glossary
Taste the Tastes. Talk the Talk.
ACIDITY

Acid is an essential balance for the natural sugars and tannins also present in wines.
Acidity creates bright freshness, helps define fruit flavours and allows a wine to age properly.

AGING

Many wines benefit from aging, both in the barrel and in the bottle. It can help develop more
complex and balanced flavours. In general, reds take/need more time to age.

APPELLATION

Simply put, where the wine is from. An appellation is an area that combines factors of climate,
weather and soil composition (terroir) to create distinctive styles and flavour profiles in wine.

BODY

How "heavy" the wine feels in your mouth, its viscosity and consistency. This is determined
both by the level of alcohol and the intensity of flavours. Higher alcohol can give wines a
richer mouth-feel.

FERMENTATION

How juice becomes wine. Fermentation is a chemical process that uses yeast to turn the
sugars in grape juice into alcohol. While consuming sugars, yeast also produces carbon
dioxide, which is what adds carbonation to sparkling wines.

NOSE

In other words, a fancy term for how it smells! The nose is just as important as the tongue
in wine tasting. The "nose" of a wine can have notes of fruit, spice, wood, herbs and flowers.
The more you taste, the more you'll identify signature aromas in different wines.

TANNIN

A natural astringent chemical found in grape skins and oak barrels, tannin adds structure and
elegance to wines. A natural preservative, it also helps a wine age. Tannin is more present in
red wines, as the juice spends more time in contact with the skins.

VERAISON

The late growing stage when grapes begin to ripen, take on colour and produce more natural
sugars. This pivotal time determines the important balance of sweetness and acidity.

VINTAGE

This term is often misused. A vintage refers to the year of the growing season that produced
a particular wine. These can vary widely because of weather, temperature and humidity, with
the same vines producing very different wines from year to year.

VITIS VINIFERA

If you've ever tasted wine, chances are you've had vitis vinifera. This is the Latin name for the
species of grape used in almost every modern wine. Originating in Europe, it's now cultivated
around the world, bred over centuries into the varieties you know, such as Chardonnay, Pinot Noir,
Cabernet Sauvignon and hundreds more.

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