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Giant bottle which contains 15 litres of wine, the equivalent of 20 normal bottles.

French wine dealer who buys the grapes and produces the wine or who buys the wines and combines them, bottles the result with his own label and commercialises it. Found especially in the Burgundy region.

Said of a wine which is produced with special grape varieties, with an exclusively natural alcoholic richness and a careful ageing which gives rise to a high quality.

Essence or aroma of a wine.

The oxidative ageing - with the help of air - usually generates aromas and flavours which remind one of nuts such as the bitter almond, the hazelnut or the walnut, among others. When the ageing is greater - especially in wood -, other tastes resembling figs, dates or raisins, may be added to these characteristics. OAK. Aroma or taste which is acquired by a wine matured in oak barrels. It may be a positive or negative quality. Terms such as toasty, vanilla, dill, cedar and smoky indicate desirable overtones in the oak, whilst others such as carbonised, burnt, green cedar, wood and plywood define the unpleasant version of this quality.