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Riesling
Riesling, also known as White Riesling or Rhine Riesling, is a white wine grape of German origin, prized for high acidity and wines from bone dry to sweet.
Romanée-Conti
Romanée-Conti: 1.81-hectare Grand Cru monopole in Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy, planted with Pinot Noir, owned by Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC), producing about 6,000 bottles yearly and holding the wine auction record.
Rosé
Rosé is a pink wine made from dark-skinned grapes with limited skin contact, via direct pressing, short maceration, saignée, or (in Champagne) blending; no precise legal definition exists, and Provence sets the pale dry benchmark.
Sancerre (wine)
Sancerre is a Loire Valley AOC in France's Cher department: whites from Sauvignon Blanc (AOC 1936, ~80% of production), reds and rosés from Pinot Noir (1959), on limestone, flint and clay soils across 14 communes.
Sangiovese
Sangiovese, Italy's most planted red wine grape, a native Tuscan and Romagna variety with over 100 clones including Brunello, Prugnolo, and Morellino; base of Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino, and Vino Nobile, known for high acidity and tannin.
Sangria
Sangria (sangría) is a Spanish and Portuguese wine punch of red wine, fruit, citrus, sugar, and often brandy. EU law reserves the name for Spanish and Portuguese production; related drinks include clarea and zurra.
Saperavi (საფერავი)
Saperavi (საფერავი), meaning "to dye," is Georgia's leading teinturier red wine grape, origin Kakheti, first mentioned in Vakhtang VI's Dasturlamali; basis of Mukuzani, Napareuli, Kindzmarauli, and Akhasheni PDO wines.
Sauternes (wine)
Sauternes (AOC Sauternes) is a Bordeaux sweet white wine appellation, recognized 1936, on five communes including Barsac, made from Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle grapes shriveled by Botrytis cinerea noble rot and hand-picked in successive passes.
Sauvignon blanc
Sauvignon blanc is a French white wine grape, parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, known for grassy, gooseberry aromas from methoxypyrazines; key styles are Loire, Bordeaux, and Marlborough, New Zealand.
Scuppernong
Scuppernong is a bronze-fruited muscadine grape cultivar selected from the wild along North Carolina's Scuppernong River in the 18th century; the first native American grape cultivated, it dominated muscadine growing until 1947.
Sherry
Sherry is the fortified wine of the Jerez-Xérès-Sherry DO in Andalusia, made mainly from Palomino, aged under flor or oxidatively in the criaderas and solera fractional-blending system, from dry Fino to sweet Pedro Ximénez.
Shiraz wine
Shiraz wine, the Australian name for Syrah, is a medium to full-bodied red from the same grape variety; styles range from lean Northern Rhône Syrah to ripe Barossa Shiraz, with rotundone giving pepper aroma and Penfolds Grange and Henschke Hill of Grace as icons.
Sommelier
Sommelier: restaurant wine professional who serves wine, advises on pairings, and manages wine lists and cellars. Certified via CMS (four levels, 305 Master Sommeliers), WSET, or ASI (678 Diploma holders).
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County, California: Northern California wine county of 1,800 square miles with 19 AVAs, nearly 60,000 vineyard acres, 425+ wineries, known for Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Dry Creek Zinfandel.
Sour Grapes (2016 film)
Sour Grapes is a 2016 American documentary directed by Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas about wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan, billionaire Bill Koch, and Burgundy winemaker Laurent Ponsot.
South African wine
South African wine, made almost entirely in the Western Cape since the first Cape vintage of 1659, is known for Chenin Blanc, the Pinotage crossing, the 1973 Wine of Origin scheme, and seventh-place world production at 4.5% of global volume.
Spanish wine
Spanish wine, from Phoenician Cádiz plantings to the world's largest vineyard (889,500 ha) and third-largest EU production. DO/DOCa classification, Rioja leadership, Tempranillo and Verdejo, export trends.
Sparkling wine
Sparkling wine: wine with endogenous CO2 producing effervescence, at least 3.5 bars at 20°C per OIV. Made by traditional, tank, or ancestral methods; Champagne, Prosecco, Cava, Franciacorta; about 7-8% of global wine production.
Storage of wine
Storage of wine (wine cellaring): keeping bottled wine at about 12–14°C with stable temperature, 60–75% humidity for corks, darkness, and side-lying bottle position, so wines preserve or age in bottle rather than spoil.
Sweetness of wine
Sweetness of wine: residual sugar (glucose plus fructose) left after fermentation, with OIV labelling thresholds from dry (4 g/l) to sweet (45 g/l) and how acidity, tannin and alcohol alter perceived sweetness.
Tareq Salahi
Tareq Salahi, American winery owner and reality TV figure of Oasis Winery, Hume, Virginia; known for the 2009 White House state dinner gate-crashing and the family dispute that closed the winery.
Tavel
Tavel is a commune in the Gard, southern France, between the Pont du Gard and Avignon. Ancient Tavellis on the Nîmes–Orange road, Roman villa and baths, medieval church, and a 1937 wine cooperative cellar listed as a Monument historique in 2013.
Tempranillo
Tempranillo (also Tinta del País, Tinto Fino, Aragonés) is Spain's early-ripening black wine grape, backbone of Rioja and Ribera del Duero, about 231,000 ha worldwide, first documented in 1513, drought-sensitive.
The Wine Advocate
The Wine Advocate, also Robert Parker Wine Advocate, is a fine-wine review publication founded by Robert Parker Jr. in 1978, known for its 50–100 point scale, peer-group tastings, and measurable influence on Bordeaux en primeur prices.
Tokaji
Tokaji is the PDO-protected wine of Hungary's Tokaj region, famous for Tokaji Aszú, a noble-rot sweet wine from Furmint and five other grapes; first demarcated in 1737 and UNESCO-listed in 2002.
Trump Winery
Trump Winery, near Charlottesville, Virginia, is the former Kluge Estate Winery bought at foreclosure auction in 2011 for $6.2 million; owned by Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, it is Virginia's largest vineyard with 227 acres of vinifera.
Valpolicella
Valpolicella is a DOC wine zone near Verona, Veneto, Italy, covering Valpolicella DOC, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto wines from Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella grapes, often dried by appassimento.
Veuve Clicquot
Veuve Clicquot (Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin) is a Reims champagne house founded in 1772, run from 1805 by the widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, inventor of riddling; now an LVMH brand known for Yellow Label.
Vin Santo
Vin Santo (Vinsanto), Italy's 'holy wine': a Tuscan passito dessert wine from dried Trebbiano and Malvasia grapes, aged three-plus years in sealed caratelli barrels; distinct from Greek Santorini Vinsanto.
Vinho Verde
Vinho Verde (green wine) is a Portuguese PDO/DOC from the demarcated northwest region established 18 September 1908, covering white, red, rosé, sparkling wines, spirits, and vinegar across nine subregions, certified by the CVRVV.