This unfiltered Chenin Blanc wine comes from South Africa. Some people prefer not to drink it because it looks a bit cloudy. Others claim that filtering takes more than the cloudiness out of the wine.
UnbalancedUnbalanced wines have an excess of some components at the expense of other components. An example is a quite acidic wine whose fruit flavor is lacking.
Unctuous are rich with a lot of concentrated, velvety fruit. Sweet dessert wines are often unctuous.
Underripe
An underripe wine tastes of underripe grapes.
Undertone
An undertone is a restrained trait. A great wine may include a symphony of undertones.
Unfiltered
Unfiltered wines have not been filtered. They may have undergone other clarification procedures such as fining.
Unfined
Unfined wines have not been fined. They may have undergone other clarification procedures such as filtering.
Upfront
An upfront wine shows its stuff immediately. It doesn’t hide its qualities, and you don’t have to wait for them to evolve, they won’t.