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Insipid, Flat—A wine without vinosity and liveliness. Wine 
left long in open bottles and decanters, or a wine that has 
been too energetically fined, often turns flat. They are 
in that state more subject to contract diséase. 
Vinous, Vinosity, is that sensation of warmth characteristic 
of the alcoholic flavour. 
Weak wine is not a light wine. It is a wine of low alcoholic 
strength, or when its alcoholic contents are not in pro- 
portion to its other chief constituents. Such wine is more 
or less insipid, and its taste is short and of no long dura- 
tion in the mouth. It is generally of difficult keeping 
unless fortified. 
Light wine is often a dry wine of good quality, with its 
various components well balanced and harmonious, but 
lacking in quantity. It is as a rule somewhat deficient 
in colour, body, alcohol, acids, and bouquet. 
Soft, Mild, is a wine that does not affect the palate by its 
harshness and astringency. It is characteristic of a wine 
that is neither sweet nor dry nor too alcoholic. 
Alcoholic—A wine with a high proportion of spirits to its 
other constituents, such as a fortified wine, or a wine made 
with over-ripe grapes; compared with the flavour detected 
by the mouth, the aftertaste is of short duration. 
Genercus.—A wine with a good proportion of aleohol as well 
as of its other constituents, which imparts a fveling of 
warmth and strength-giving—a good tonic wine. 
Lively—Which makes a quick impression on the palate, 
generally a wine with an adequate proportion of acids and 
alcohol. 
Full-Round.—What the French call Etoffé. A robust, har- 
monious wine, which gives the impression of solidity and 
good constitution—a tonic wine—a quality possessed by 
Australian wines made from good sorts of grapes and well 
fermented. 
Body.—A wine of good vinosity and rich in extractive matter. 
Generally sticks to the glass like beads. 
Heady.—Generally a young wine still saturated with car- 
bonie acid, and having a good proportion of newly- 
fermented raw and somewhat fiery alcohol, which has not 
yet had time to refine. Should be drunk of with modera- 
tion. 
Heavy.—A wine surcharged with extractive matter and low in 
alcohol, and which is hard to digest. 
