The structure — the combination of tannin and acidity — should also give the wine longevity. The importer, Kysela Pere et Fils, recommends on its website drinking this wine in one to four years.

THE word ‘structure’ is over-used when describing a wine. I’ve been a culprit at times. And one regular reader of this column, Jerome Farrell of Mullingar, Co Westmeath, recently took me to ...

But tannins are a key component in the structure of red wine, along with acidity. (Acidity, incidentally, is the main structure-giving component in white wine, which generally has no tannins.) ...

Structure is the impression certain wines give of being something other than a shapeless mass of liquid sloshing about in your mouth. Is there something that seems to be holding it all together, ...

That experience encouraged me to delve further into wine, and the 1974 Insignia soon became a benchmark in my memory bank to define balance and structure.

Why Wine Pros Are Reaching for These Giant Bottles — and Why You Should Too. Want more structure, elegance, and balance? Go big.

Cutting to the chase: diet wine is like diet beer: fewer calories translates into less of other good things. Low-calorie wines have been around for a while but seem to be growing as a category. The… ...

Wine, when you begin to analyze it, has many component parts. The fruit, of course, is paramount; it's the soul of a wine and tells us more about a wine's pedigree than anything else.