Negative description in a wine evaluation or wine address. The term is to be understood in context, it can refer to the smell and taste and/or the colour of a wine. Colour deficits express themselves, for example, through cloudiness. Often this is due to improper winemaking with poor hygiene during cellar operations (see degumming). Impure tones mean at least a qualitative impairment; if more pronounced, this is to be assessed as a wine defect. These are, for example, brown break, protein turbidity, horse sweat, black break and UTA. Related terms are blind and sick; the opposite, positive term is clean (reintönig).
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