Color

Soft Straw Yellow

The tonality of white wines that are very young, and have light body and alcohol content. The tint can be an indication of a defective wine due to excessive filtration or abundance of clarifying agents.

Straw Yellow with Green Nuances

Some types of white wines have greenish reflections due to the presence of chlorophyll, especially when very young. These wines retain the green pigment of the grape.

Straw Yellow

The degree of intensity of color varies according to the stage of evolution of the wine.

Golden Yellow

The color tone of wines with a characteristic yellow color that comes either from the grape variety, the grape selection and/or the enology employed.
Fading golden yellow color may be indications of the stage of evolution of straw yellow wines and indicates oxidation.

Yellow Amber

The amber tint is typical of wines made from partly-dried grapes or fortified versions of wines.
Straw yellow wines may develop an amber hue and loss of quality due to oxidation.

Pink

The color of wines having a reddish color with soft reflections. The tonalities of pink vary depending on how long the grape skins were left in with the wine during the crushing and/or the intensity of the grape variety color.

Slightly Pink

Wines with soft, red color, almost transparent, vivacious, with ruby tendencies.

Cherry Red

Wines with a characteristic hue of red reminiscent of cherries.

Purplish-Red

Wines with a deep, red color with purple reflections reminiscent of a cardinal's robe. The purple reflections are more evident toward the edge of the glass.

Ruby Red

The common generic color of red wines.

Garnet

Color similar to pomegranat seedse. Typical of mature red wines with noteworthy structures.

Reddish-Orange

Color of mature wines with remarkable body structure.

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Limpidity

The purpose of this examination is to determine the clarity of a wine.

Bright

Wine that reflects vividly the light directed at it.

Very Limpid

Describes a wine with perfect limpidity and transparency.

Limpid

Wine with good transparency but little luminosity.

Fairly Limpid

Wine that may have a slight opalescence.

Veiled

Wine whose limpidity is darkened by large particles in suspension that may or may not be visible to the naked eye.

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Effervescence (only for sparkling wines)

The evaluation parameters for the effervescence are finesse of bubbles, number of bubbles and persistence of the perlage, or the strings of bubbles.

When the bubbles are present in large number and are extremely fine, the perlage is persistent and the wine quality can be regarded as good, whether it was made by the Classic (Champenois) method or the Charmat method.

Low ratings indicate that the wine was probably forced to sparkle by adding carbon dioxide.

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