Oxidized: adj. An oxidized wine is a wine whose color and aromatic palette have been altered by oxidation. It is due to the presence of ethyl aldehyde whose oxidation produced in contact with air, gives acetic acid. This is the definition of a wine that has aged badly, especially a white wine that browns prematurely and takes on this false taste of Madeira. So we recognize an oxidized wine by its smells of very ripe or even chard apple, rancid butter, cut fruit exposed to the air or bitter almond...
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