The best quality wine.

Part of the clarification process in which a clarifying agent is added to wine to remove impurities.

Winemaking process in which distilled spirits are added to a wine to increase its alcohol content.

A wine that went through fortification, which means that spirits have been added to it to raise the alcohol levels and prevent fermentation.

When the wine smells and has a flavour similar to fresh fruit.

Fermented alcoholic beverage made from other fruits than grapes.

How heavy a wine feels in the mouth, full-bodied wines feel thick.

The thick, cloudy sediment formed during primary fermentation, containing yeast cells, grape skins, and other particles.

When you make wine from fresh fruit it is inevitable that some of the skins, seeds, and perhaps a stray stem or two will wind up in the bottom of your fermentation container.

Hops are the flowers of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, which is part of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. Hops are used in beer to add a bitter, floral, fruity, or citrus flavour and aroma. They also help beer retain its foam and stay fresh longer

A measure of the bitterness of beer, influenced by the type and amount of hops used.

IBUs Units are measured on a scale from 0 to.... infinity basically. There's no ceiling on the IBU scale because you could make a beer more and more bitter (with more and more of the chemicals found in beer's ingredients, namely hops and malt) without an end in site.