A red wine full of ripe, plummy fruit, this Cabernet has a dense, tightly woven mouthfeel, with complex, chewy, and velvety tannins and an interesting medley of flavors: caramel ice cream, burnt orange, traces of acid, and the murky silt of a muddy pond.
A smooth Bordeaux that is gutsy enough to accompany steak, this wine consistently came out top in our tastings. A heady, exotic perfume of juniper berries, marmalade, and throat lozenges. Like an emotionally dysfunctional businessman, or a land-locked sailor.
A wine with a zingy, peachy palate and a tone of condescension.
A gloriously rich Cabernet-dominated wine with clean, fresh, natural flavors. Excitement, mischief, the fresh note of bergamot, and the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe.
A full-bodied red wine with real class. Rich, ripe flavors emanate from this wine like a waft of bells, or the gentle parp of a military band, or the faint murmur of voices playing dice for high stakes as the last piece of the sun is eclipsed by the moon and the first peals of thunder roll across the sky.
A young wine. I can smell sour milk and homemade chicken soup.
Sources: New Oxford American Dictionary, Collins COBUILD Primary Learner’s Dictionary, Macquarie Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary