Word |
Description |
| Racking | The process of moving wine from barrel to barrel, while leaving sediment behind. |
| Reserva | A Spanish term for a red wine that has spent at least three years in barrels and bottles before release. |
| Reserve | A largely American term indicating a wine of higher quality; it has no legal meaning. |
| Rhone | A river in southwest France surrounded by villages producing wines mostly from Syrah; the name of the wine-producing valley in France. |
| Riddling | The process of rotating Champagne bottles in order to shift sediment toward the cork. |
| Riesling | Along with Chardonnay, one of the top white grapes in the world; most popular in Germany, Alsace, and Austria. |
| Rioja | A well-known region in Spain known for traditional red wines made from the Tempranillo grape. |
| Rose | French for ipink,i and used to describe a category of refreshing wines that are pink in color but are made from red grapes. |
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