Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

Slight fizziness caused by the carbon dioxide formed during fermentation. Most noticeable in wines that have been refrigerated during fermentation.

A wine with slight residual gas in it. Usually attractive in light young whites, but in reds it is often a sign of refermentation in bottle

a taste sensation derived from small amounts of residual carbon dioxide in wines. Often a prickly character can be noticed in white wines fermented cold (the lowering of the temperature tends to integrate more carbon dioxide than usual); its appreciation is relative to the individual taster.