A wine with very little or no nose, common in youthful well made wines.
Tasting term for wines that are too young, too cold or have not developed yet, therefor not revealing flavor or aroma.
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"
same as closed, to describe a phase in a wine’s life
Characteristic description typical of wines that are too young or possibly too cold that refuse to reveal much flavor or bouquet at all; closed.
Characteristic used to describe mainly young wines which may need more time to reveal their richness and intensity, but that may never get any better.
Not revealing flavor or aroma; closed; typical of wines that are too young or too cold.
A dumb wine is also a closed wine, but the term dumb is used more pejoratively. Closed wines may need only time to reveal their richness and intensity. Dumb wines may never get any better.
Not offering its full quality (wine is too young or too cold)
It is a term to describe a young wine that refuses to offer up its bouquet and flavour.
An ageworthy wine that has lost its youthful fruit but not yet gained the complex bouquet of bottle age, and not showing much of anything during the interim.
Describes a phase young wines undergo when their flavors and aromas are undeveloped. A synonym of closed.