• gripping tannins, zesty acidity. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Rich with flavors of ripe melon, pear and peach, and a bright acidity that lingers into an elegant finish. (wholefoodsmarket.com)
  • Palate is grippy again - lots of tannins, high acidity. (wine-pages.com)
  • Mouthfilling texture and good fruit: green fig and ripe pear notes, with lots of lemony acidity. (wine-pages.com)
  • The palate is fresh and crisp on the entry, delivering silky-smooth tannins, perfect acidity and a sense of harmony than is very persuasive. (klwines.com)
  • Bold black-cherry and blackberry aromas lead to layered fruit and light spice flavors backed by moderate tannins and good fruit acidity that add grip to the mouthfeel. (navarrowine.com)
  • medium-bodied, richly extracted black and redcurrant flavours, with grainy but ripe tannins and a lively core of acidity. (tonyaspler.com)
  • Although the wine is rich in tannin, it is not hard due to the low acidity. (chateau-cheval-blanc.com)
  • The cherry and red fruit repeats and lingers on the palate supported with bright acidity and silky tannins over its long, smooth, flavor-filled finish. (capegazette.com)
  • This full-bodied zinfandel leads with black pepper and clove on the nose with ripe plum and cherry on the palate. (wholefoodsmarket.com)
  • Grippy on the palate though, with loads of oak and alcohol, chewy, ripe tannins and plenty of stewed, plummy fruit. (wine-pages.com)
  • The full-bodied palate is densely packed with taut, muscular black fruits and earthy layers, framed by super firm, ripe, grainy tannins and seamless freshness, finishing very long and wonderfully earthy. (klwines.com)
  • The palate is medium-bodied and quite saline in the mouth, with grippy tannins, good body and just a slight austerity on the finish. (bbr.com)
  • Savoury blue fruit, nice balance, concentrated through the mid palate, soft tannins that have been carefully handled to emphase the fruit. (bbr.com)
  • The 2021 Resèrve de la Comtesse offers up aromas of sweet berry fruit, blackcurrants, petals and classy new oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, deep and impressively concentrated palate that's framed by lively acids and beautifully refined tannins. (bbr.com)
  • Slightly ripe/sweet on the palate. (intowine.com)
  • On the palate, it starts out slightly bitter but with air gets a bit riper. (intowine.com)
  • It covers the palate with flavors of Honey Crisp apple, ripe pear and buttered toast. (wtop.com)
  • On the palate, the wine displays flavors of dark berries, mocha and more ripe cherry fruit. (wtop.com)
  • The palate has a narrow entry that suddenly and impressively widens - bathed in ripe, decently grained tannin. (burgundy-report.com)
  • Sweet palate entry and full-bodied red with a touch of tannin at the back. (klwines.com)
  • The palate has a firm array of rich and succulent tannins that drive a boldly flavored finish. (klwines.com)
  • Sexy and silky on the palate, with pure black cherry and blackberry fruit, ripe tannins, and excellent structure. (grape-nutz.com)
  • Look for ripe black fruits, tobacco leaf, cassis aromas and flavours lingering on the palate. (nataliemaclean.com)
  • It's ripe and jammy on the palate, being a bit hot and alcoholic. (weimax.com)
  • Faint tannins leave a dusty impression on the edges of the mouth as the fruit finishes slightly sweet on the palate. (vinography.com)
  • Thrilling crème de cassis fruit, notes of lead pencil, damp earth, cedarwood, violets, and acacia flowers, full-bodied richness, masses of ultra-fine tannins, and a great, great finish all make for a legendary Saint-Estèphe that will need a good decade of bottle age yet evolve for 50 years or more. (klwines.com)
  • Full-bodied with tannins that are so integrated and refined that you don't feel them, yet they are there! (klwines.com)
  • In order to attract new and younger customers, wine producers have employed a number of techniques to try to produce ripe-flavoured, full-bodied wines that don't have the characteristic of tannins. (connexionfrance.com)
  • Medium-to full-bodied with ripe tannins. (bbr.com)
  • Medium-to full-bodied, tight and tidy with lightly firm tannins and good, spicy fruit. (internetwines.com)
  • Flavors of poached pear, cooked apple, yellow raisin and caramel offered in a rich and ripe style. (princeofpinot.com)
  • Very ripe yet retains an attractive freshness to the red pinot fruit aromas merging into round, supple, remarkably intense flavors underpinned by buried but firm tannins and excellent length. (winebid.com)
  • This is a bird of a different feather, with a ripe, sleek, and very polished feel as creamed loganberry, plum and boysenberry flavors spill forth, flanked for support by singed alder and incense notes, while black tea and savory threads curl around the finish. (klwines.com)
  • In the mouth, sweet blackberry, black cherry, and cocoa powder flavors mix with cola nut and cassis under a haze of powdery tannin. (vinography.com)
  • Deliciously sweet when ripe, these persimmons were the native fruits most prized by indigenous people of the Southeast. (wildflower.org)
  • A plant with high tannin content, particularly its fruits, bark, and leaves, Emblic is a known traditional medicine for the treatment of a wide range of conditions like fever, constipation, cough, and asthma. (pfaf.org)
  • Fruits of wild plants weigh approximately 5.5g, cultivated fruits average 28 - 50g[ Many Hindus regard emblic as sacred and the Hindu religion prescribes that ripe fruit be eaten for 40 days after a fast in order to restore health and vitality. (pfaf.org)
  • deftly extracted tannins and the innate vigour and tenacity of the fruits deliver that freshness. (decanter.com)
  • Lush, ripe fruits. (mcgregorwinery.com)
  • There is a wall of tannin here but backed up by voluptuously ripe fruits that major on damson and fig, overlaid with cinnamon and saffron spices. (klwines.com)
  • Rich and dense, this wine is happily poised between ripe fruits and a deceptively powerful structure. (klwines.com)
  • The aromas of perfumed woods, herbs, spices and dried fruits all come from the transformation of tannins over time and are quite different to those found in young wines. (connexionfrance.com)
  • The 2017 shows, ripe blue and black fruits such as black cherry and boysenberry along with touches of pipe tobacco and clove. (winereviewonline.com)
  • On the nose, ripe red fruits with floral reminders. (plummarket.com)
  • Rich, ripe fruit with expected grippy tannin, dark chocolate and barrel spices. (capegazette.com)
  • Wide and quite full in shape - plenty of pinot fruit and a base of ripe, grippy tannin. (burgundy-report.com)
  • Fresh nose of English strawberries, dark cherries, ripe jammy plums and hints of savoury nuances and spicy oak. (decanter.com)
  • 92 points James Suckling: " Some quite bold oak and lead pencil with ripe dark berries and plums in abundance. (klwines.com)
  • He knew what many wine enthusiasts knew intuitively: there's simply something sublime about enjoying a juicy bite of steak with a sip of rich, ripe, tannic Cabernet Sauvignon. (florasprings.com)
  • Fruit and balsamic with shades of ripe strawberries, blackberries and cherries, combined with thyme and mountain herbs. (bibendum-wine.co.uk)
  • Elegant, velvety tannins enhance the mouthfeel on the long fruit driven finish. (wtop.com)
  • When ripe, the fruit comprises thick pulpy jelly encased in a waxy thin-skinned shell. (wikipedia.org)
  • Soluble tannin means that the fruit will have an acrid taste. (wikipedia.org)
  • In some cases, the presence of seeds will turn the tannin insoluble in the whole of the fruit and in other cases only just around the seeds. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ripening process turns the tannin insoluble, after which all bitterness disappears and the sweet fruit can be enjoyed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Super-rich rendering of mostly tempranillo, with dark red fruit upfront and furry, suede-licking tannins in the back. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Bright, open and perfumed with intense aromatics and layers of ripe red fruit. (wholefoodsmarket.com)
  • Ripe and chocolaty with rich mulberry fruit, mocha-coffee. (wine-pages.com)
  • When ripe, the sweet fruit of Persimmon somewhat recalls the flavor of dates. (wildflower.org)
  • Immature fruit contains tannin and is strongly astringent. (wildflower.org)
  • The trick of handling this potentially huge phenolic extraction was to manage the tannins in the winemaking and, of course, to have enough fruit ripeness. (wine-pages.com)
  • There are definitely some difficult wines that have succumbed to the vintage conditions in my opinion, with deficient fruit to balance tannins and extract, but some real successes too. (wine-pages.com)
  • Analytically, this ranks as one of the most tannic vintages of Monte Bello ever produced, but the tannins are of such high quality and cloaked in such a wealth of fruit that Ridge forwent their habitual egg white fining this year-beginning a trend that has continued since. (ridgewine.com)
  • Ripe fruit. (intowine.com)
  • Fragrant, ripe plum-blackberry fruit is well meshed with cedar, leather, licorice and chocolate. (torontolife.com)
  • It offers considerable oak resin, cedar and cocoa around ripe plum fruit. (torontolife.com)
  • Complex fruit, tannins, and oak are impressively balanced. (ridgewine.com)
  • Typically, we reduce pump-overs and press early, balancing tannins to fruit. (ridgewine.com)
  • The wine is charming and shows very ripe fruit. (chateau-cheval-blanc.com)
  • The ripe,forward fruit of the 2009 vintage mixes well with the hardness of the wines from Verdignan. (klwines.com)
  • The color, fruit and tannin say it will be wonderful by 2025. (capegazette.com)
  • Intense red colour, with notes of ripe red berry fruit, tobacco, spices and vanilla. (bibendum-wine.co.uk)
  • And this has some pretty heavy tannins for lacking fruit. (weimax.com)
  • I did find the tannin level to be substantial and the fruit a bit shy at this point. (weimax.com)
  • A third person found 'tart, ripe, polished currant fruit with dusty blackberry notes and shades of herbs. (weimax.com)
  • I found the nose to show really ripe and rather jammy fruit. (weimax.com)
  • The high proportion of Cabernet Franc in the final blend maintains freshness in this very ripe year. (chateau-cheval-blanc.com)
  • Fragrant aromas of bright ripe red berries, with nots of flowers and aromatic herbs. (decanter.com)
  • Color and tannin extracted rapidly from the small berries. (ridgewine.com)
  • Tannins also release complex and interesting aromas and flavours as they age and transform. (connexionfrance.com)
  • In this lineup, the wine has the easiest-going tannins and is the most forward. (princeofpinot.com)
  • Refined tannins make this an excellent wine for fans of red blends. (wholefoodsmarket.com)
  • This is a report on my trip to Bordeaux for "en primeurs 2004" - the wine world's very first chance to taste Bordeaux's new vintage and report back to Bordeaux-lovers. (wine-pages.com)
  • Reductive and substantially ripe, this wine shows mountainous tannin structure and weight. (wineenthusiast.com)
  • Here, too, I found the wine a bit more expressive and giving en primeur. (klwines.com)
  • Tannins are the most confusing and misunderstood flavour or characteristic of wine. (connexionfrance.com)
  • White wines and rosés generally don't have any tannin so this article is about red wine. (connexionfrance.com)
  • Tannins is a catch-all word for a range of organic molecules found in wine called polyphenols. (connexionfrance.com)
  • The whole concept of ageing red wine is about the evolution of the tannins. (connexionfrance.com)
  • As wine ages, those astringent young tannins will transform into bigger but smoother-feeling tannins. (connexionfrance.com)
  • The length of time the skins are left in the fermenting wine will also affect how much tannin is extracted. (connexionfrance.com)
  • People vary widely in their tolerance and enjoyment of tannin in wine. (connexionfrance.com)
  • The wine itself is smooth, polished and mint flavored, the tannins ripe and juicy. (wineenthusiast.com)
  • The wine is smooth, with good length and slightly drying tannins. (winereviewonline.com)
  • A well-balanced wine that needs 1-2 years to harmonize its tannins. (tonyaspler.com)
  • There are some herbal notes, so the wine has a bit of 'green' to go along with the blatantly over-ripe character. (weimax.com)
  • Barely perceptible tannins linger as the wine finishes with a berry and floral note. (vinography.com)
  • citation needed] The high content of tannin in the still-immature kaki provides a bitter component reminiscent of a raw unpeeled chestnut, which weakens with progressive maturation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lush and extravagantly ripe, the 2018 possesses tremendous depth and plenty of energy to back it all up. (klwines.com)
  • Ripe fruited and almost syrupy in density, with embossed notes of caramelized oak. (princeofpinot.com)
  • Aromatic, clean and estery with super-ripe minty notes. (wine-pages.com)
  • A lovely, clear, pale-ruby color, it opens to raspberry and ripe strawberry with rose and tea accents. (capegazette.com)
  • The furry taste, caused by the tannins, is reduced and finally completely disappears during the ripening process. (wikipedia.org)
  • There is no lack of concentration here, and in many ways the trick has been to manage the high levels of extraction and tannins naturally present in this vintage. (wine-pages.com)