Negative description in the context of 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 are expressed, for example, by cloudiness. This is often due to improper winemaking with a lack of hygiene during the cellar work (see also degumming). Impure tones signify at least a qualitative impairment; if they are more pronounced, this is to be assessed as a wine defect. These are, for example, brown breakage, protein turbidity, horse sweat, black breakage and UTA (atypical ageing tone). Related terms are blind, sick, mouldy and mouldy; the opposite, positive term is pure (clean).
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