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  • n  any of various complex phenolic substances of plant origin; used in tanning and in medicine

  • This tints the wine pink, and leaves a light, low-tannin flavor.
  • Lehrman says that sake's lack of tannin structure and its low acidity compared with wine make it a drink that's hard not to like.
  • Its extremely high tannin levels (from which it gets its name) mean that it can usually be drunk only after extensive aging or mixing with other, softer varietals.
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  • Wine: Recommended bottles of the week
    Classic Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon should feature flavors of blackberries and currants and — increasingly rare — a minty quality that tastes cool, for lack of a better word. Too many today taste only of wood, tannin and alcohol; in other words, hot flavors.
    July 3, 2013 - Kingston Daily Freeman
  • Wine: Your recommended bottles of the week
    Classic Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon should feature flavors of blackberries and currants and — increasingly rare — a minty quality that tastes cool, for lack of a better word. Too many today taste only of wood, tannin and alcohol; in other words, hot flavors.
    July 3, 2013 - Delaware County Daily Times
Quotes

  • Andrea Immer Robinson in Seattle Times
    I think it would be a rather heavy Merlot or Syrah -- though maybe Syrah would be too rounded. It's got very spiky moments, so maybe something with a bit more tannin -- a rather tannic red, I think. Slightly uncomfortable, this film, rather dark.... Anthony Daniels http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Daniels&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFaULbpAJ8SypjM2zcrkqjmGTxTcA San Francisco Chronicle http://www.google.com/url?q=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ffile%3D/c/a/2005/05/12/STARWARS.TMP&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQlaMxs7MYwxV2IXkKQwy2B0tKVg May 11, 2005 98150 130179 tannin Tannin is closely associated with color because it comes from the same place, the grape skins," Immer writes. "The juice of nearly all wine grapes is clear; the color is in the skins."

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