wein.plus
Attention
You are using an old browser that may not function as expected.
For a better, safer browsing experience, please upgrade your browser.

Log in Become a Member

Game damage

See under browsing by game.

Name for a wine defect that manifests itself by a medicinal odour of iodoform and a lacquer-like taste or taste reminiscent of dyes. Deer, hares, wild boars or birds such as starlings can cause serious damage, especially in young vineyards, by gnawing the stem bark and eating away the tips of the shoots. This is prevented by coating the vine stems with wood tar (mixture of phenols and phenol ethers). This substance can get into the tissue via the leaves and thus...

Voices of our members

Sigi Hiss

There is a vast number of sources on the web where one can acquire knowledge about wine. But none has the scope, timeliness and accuracy of the information in the encyclopaedia at wein.plus. I use it regularly and rely on it.

Sigi Hiss
freier Autor und Weinberater (Fine, Vinum u.a.), Bad Krozingen

The world's largest Lexicon of wine terms.

26,382 Keywords · 46,989 Synonyms · 5,323 Translations · 31,716 Pronunciations · 202,680 Cross-references
made with by our author Norbert F. J. Tischelmayer. About the Lexicon

EVENTS NEAR YOU

PREMIUM PARTNERS