Dirty

A negative description of wines with chemical or microbial “off” odorsThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.

Diacetyl

Diacetyl is a buttery-tasting compound that is a by-product of malolacticThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.

Deutscher Wein

German table wine, the humblest category of wine. Although the ALCOHOLThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.

Dessert Wine

General term for a wine that is sweet and, as such, could accompany,The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.

Depth

Intensity and concentration. An especially intense and concentratedThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.

DAC

Districtus Austriae Controllatus, or protected Austrian declaration of origin.The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.

22.5

Amount (in thousands of US$) paid at auction for a single bottle of 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, the red wine that came in first in the 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting fifty years ago. The bottle, sold by Christie’s auction house, was The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.

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