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Wine words

Wine words

What 4,143,729 tasting expressions reveal about the vocabulary wine professionals really use.

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Corked

The best-known wine fault is the one least often written down

September 24, 2026

Minerality

The most used word in tasting, and the least defined

September 17, 2026

Geranium

The one flower you don't want to smell in a glass

August 24, 2026

Pome fruits

Wine really only knows two of them

September 3, 2026

Attack, mid-palate, finish

The mid-palate has vanished

The wine bestiary

Sixteen animals hide in your tasting notes

Red fruit vs Black fruit

The match is more lopsided than it looks

August 20, 2026

Earthy

The word that names almost nothing

August 13, 2026

The great citrus ranking

The winner is not a citrus fruit

Petrichor

An aroma as poetic as it is rare

What your tasters really say about your wines

Tastee analyses tasting comments and extracts the descriptors actually used, word by word.