Wine terms you need to know
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Wine terms you need to know

Small Batch Learning
Updated Mar 27, 2019

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  • Grape: A fruit which comes from a family of plants called vines. The type of grapes used for making wine are different to the grapes grown for eating – they are smaller, with thicker skins, and less juicy (pictured above – eating grapes top, wine grapes below).
  • Vineyard: This is the field where the vines are grown. It can also mean the whole farm that produces the wine, although that is actually also known English as the winery.
  • Vintage: Grapes grow on vines once a year. They are then harvested and the wine made. If a wine is made from grapes grown all in one year it is called a vintage, and the bottle label will display the year the grapes were harvested.