Description (also broad-shouldered, muscular) for the overall taste impression in the context of a wine address. Such a wine is characterised by full body and high alcohol content with perhaps too much dominance, but may lack finesse for a top wine. Related terms are warm, full-bodied, powerful, mighty and heavy..
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