Term (also architecture, skeleton, framework; backbone, skeleton) for the overall picture of a wine in the context of a wine assessment or wine evaluation. The structure describes the interplay of all relevant ingredients and sensory components and determines how a wine is built and how it behaves on the palate. Whether this structure is perceived as balanced or harmonious is a question of the integration and evaluation of the individual components. This interplay characterises and determines the quality of the wine. The impressions are perceived olfactorily(odour), gustatorily(taste) and also trigeminally(sense of touch).
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