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Weak Wine

A wine is said to be weak when it is of low alcoholic strength, or when its alcoholic contents are not in proportion to its other constituents. Wines of this character have in general little flavor, are insipid, and difficult to keep, on account of the gummy or mucilaginous substances which they contain, and to [...]

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QUALITIES AND DEFECTS OP WINES

The art of wine tasting, like every art or science, has a language of its own, without which the taster could not properly express his criticisms, nor compare his opinions with those of other tasters regarding the same wine. This renders it necessary to define or explain the various terms that have been adopted by [...]

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