attack

Posted by Andrew Yandell on

attack is an unnecessarily aggressive word used by professionals to describe the first impression a wine makes on your palate.  I prefer gentler colloquial phrasing that gets the job done just as well.

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Granite

Andrew Yandell By Andrew Yandell

Hard, granular, igneous rock predominantly composed of quartz, mica, and feldspar, that once decomposed, becomes generally acidic and infertile soil. Wines grown in granitic sands are often...

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Slate

Andrew Yandell By Andrew Yandell

Bluish, greenish, grayish, or brownish hard metamorphic rock that breaks into long fragments easily. Slate is hardly soil, or rather crackable rock through which grapevines...

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