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After autolysis has finished, if a sparkling wine is kept on its lees, it merely remains fresher than the same wine disgorged at an earlier date.
Cedary oak and lees yeastiness give excellent depth and graciously offsets the rich underlying fruit.
The wine is aged on the lees in the bottle for about three years prior to disgorgement.
Its hangings, the curtains, the room's upholstery were the dingy colour of the lees of wine.
Potassium tartrate, the source of this white residue, is sometimes referred to as argol, or lees.
The title came about when the two owners tasted an experimental Chardonnay that had been left on the lees in barrels for some time.
These have long been used by the Champagne industry to seal bottles while they are aging on the lees.
It is especially recommended for the preparation of white wines of marked varietal character or to be aged on lees.
They can be enjoyed young, but barrel-ageing on the lees lends them fleshiness and good cellaring potential.
The Sulfilyser is particularly adapted to highly colored red wines, lees for distillation, fruit juices, alcoholic drinks and vinegars.
The ageing on fine lees confers to the wine incomparable structure, suppleness, lushness and elegance.
A special building is used for the ageing of Milmanda, a Chardonnay wine fermented in small oak casks which spends a long period in contact with its own lees.
Second, by using such by-products as wine marc and wine lees, the tartaric acid industry is a significant source of income for the wine sector.
Then there is compulsory distillation of lees and marc, by-products of wine making, to avoid over-pressing of grapes and improve wine quality.
The wine is then raised on its fine lees for 8 to 10 months, enabling it to acquire a certain suppleness and more complex aromas.
They are used for the transfer of wine, must, lees as well as entire or crushed grapes and fermented paste.
Second fermentation: Increases lees volume, enhancing the in-mouth volume sensation and the persistence of foam.
Regular stirring up of the lees brings this wine fruitiness and crispness, perfected by a final year of maturation.
This is an extremely easy to use automatic system for decanting the lees in the bottle.
The voice phenomenon produced by lees was instantly recognisable as that of the late Consort.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If the wine boil over, put to it the lees of red wine, and that will cure it.
The lees of twenty ducats shabby in his fist told her how near the peril was.
To her service he had dedicated the lees of his life and the ripeness of his knowledge.
Cream of tartar is bitartrate of potassium and is obtained from the lees deposited in wine casks.
How sing the splendour of the revelries, When buts of wine are drunk off to the lees?
But the waters were seething now, stirred to their very lees by plot and counterplot.
The streets were full of people who had worked indoors all through the priceless day and had now come hungrily out to drink the muddy lees of it.
There, the liquid is left on its yeasty lees to develop depth, toastiness and a creamy texture.
What work would they make with your Shakespears, Otways, and lees?
Sometimes ink was made of the cuttle fish or from lees of wine.
The champion said he would tell Lees, the greenkeeper, and that should be done.
When this alarming communication was received all the depreciation of the Lees, izard, and the rest went for nothing.
She spent much time out of doors, on the Lees, in a Bath chair.
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