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- adjective Insufficiently
ripe forharvesting oreating
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Examples
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The nose shows a lot of pineapple with a little bit of underripe peach.
LENNDEVOURS: 2009
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Windham's version, which is 11% ABV, has a fresh, somewhat riesling-like nose with notes of honeysuckle, citrus and underripe peach.
LENNDEVOURS: 2009
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Huge rose petal aromas with sweet grapefruit and underripe peach.
Tasting Notes 2009
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Where the Warwick Valley was a little thin and underripe, this one is ripe and rich.
Hudson Valley Wine 2009
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Windham's version, which is 11% ABV, has a fresh, somewhat riesling-like nose with notes of honeysuckle, citrus and underripe peach.
Hudson Valley Wine 2009
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Besides rating characteristics like total aroma intensity, bitterness, and total flavor intensity on numerical scales, they recited aromatic descriptors: “trace chocolate” (slightly reminiscent of bittersweet chocolate), “trace caramel” (like heated sugar), “dull woody” (like soaked bamboo skewers), and “green underripe” (an off-note resembling the aroma of raw peas).
In the coffee labs: One man’s ‘tasty’ is another’s ‘quite complex’ 2011
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Like so many red Burgundies from 2006 seem to be, it was underripe, excessively acidified, and almost textureless.
Inventor of box wine, wineonomics, “sham” — sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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He had tasted it as a prisoner of war in Germany, and the wine, a thimbleful in a mustard jar, was underripe and short on the finish.
Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc Jay McInerney 2012
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Not only is acidification illegal in Burgundy, but how can something be acidified AND underripe?
Inventor of box wine, wineonomics, “sham” — sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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I love acidity in white wines, but the malic acid, just-bite-into-an-underripe-green apple tartness is too much here, throwing the wine off balance.
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