Indication of Regulated Provenance (Indicação de Proveniência Regulamentada). Designation used in wines that, although having peculiar characteristics, will have to follow certain rules established for the production of high quality wines. After following all the rules for a minimum period of 5 years, the wines can be qualified as DOC.

 

Port Wine Institute (free translation for Instituto do Vinho do Porto). Official organisation and regulates and controls the production and commercialisation of Port wine.

 

Cylinder shaped container that is filled with ice and used to cool a wine bottle. All wines, whether white, rosé or red, should be cooled in an ice bucket when they're not at the ideal temperature.

 

Smell resembling that of ripe fruit or fruit compote, i.e., fruit reduced by boiling and rich in sugar.

 

In Canada, dessert wine - as the German Eiswein - obtained by concentration of the sugar found in frozen grapes.

 

Fault found in a not very developed wine or a wine that shows excess malic acidity. The wine's green flavour reveals this fault.

 

Bulky bottle whose content is the equivalent to 8 traditional bottles.

 

Said of fiery wine that is also rude, i.e., that has a hot, energetic attack when it enters the palate, but quickly ends its development in the mouth, becoming short and leaving feeble sensations.

 

To smooth wine letting it age in appropriate conditions.

 

Operations applied to musts that don't have the desired quality. Authorised and regulated operations are the addition of sugar (chaptalisation), acidification or deacidification, depuration, etc.