les Vin Doux Naturels
English translation: Unfortified Sweet Wines
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| na +2 | natural sweet wines |
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| na +1 | unfotified sweet wines |
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| na | vin doux naturel [naturally sweet white wines] |
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unfotified sweet wines Explanation: harrap's shorter |
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natural sweet wines Explanation: The "Vins Doux Naturels" (natural sweet wines), or VDN, are generally produced on shone upon, poor and dry grounds. The vines thus have poor yield and produce musts of a great high content in sugars, 252 grams per liter at least. The addition of alcohol, which correspond of 5 with 10 % of volume of must put in work, stop the fermentation alcoholic in inhibit the action of yeast and allow with wine of keep a part of sugar of raisin.Les sweet wine doux natural have therefore a title alcoholometric asset minimum of 15 % in volume, i.e. a alcoholic strength of at least 15 and a title alcoholometric total of at least 21,5 % in volume. The second link is a very useful one if you are working on a text concerning wines. HTH Poornima Reference: http://www.dr-belair.com/dic/dc-oenology-dictionary.htm Reference: http://www.chez.com/bibs/aglo.html |
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