Body of the wine: locut. The "body of the wine" is in a way the impression of the weight of a wine in the mouth due to its tannins and its alcohol content, hence the expression having body. It is in fact the perception that we have of a wine brought by the elements it contains according to their intensity and their persistence: sugars, alcohols, polyalcohols (organic molecule having several alcohol functions), acidity, tannins , sapidity, minerality.
So when talking about the body of a wine, we are talking about a...
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