Glossary entries
B
- Badisch Rotgold
- A Rotling from the Baden wine-growing region
- Barrique
- A traditional French cask measure of 225 liters
- Beerenauslese
- a full-bodied, fruity wine made from overripe grapes
- Bereich
- appellation of origin, a district
- Blanc de Noir
- White wine made from red grapes
- Blind tasting
- Tasting to objectively assess a wine’s style and quality without knowing its identity
- Bocksbeutel
- flat, round-shaped bottle with a short neck
- Body
- tasting term for the overall sensation of a wine’s fullness in the mouth
- Botrytis Cinerea
- a fungus, pathogen of sour rot and noble rot