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- noun The characteristic
quality of awine that makes ittypical of a particular region or grape variety
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Examples
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We all found a sameness in the wines, a uniformity that seemed to speak more of cautious winemaking than of what Laura called typicity.
NYT > Home Page By ERIC ASIMOV 2012
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The other is whether the wine is deemed to express the "typicity," or signature taste, of the region.
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No doubt that those who did realize top wines will put later on the markets real new benchmarks since you have clearly a new style coming out which may be defined as a fantastic finesse with soft high quality tanins and a lenght for time, without loosing the typicity of the terroir and, of course, any fruit in total and pure maturity.
Bordeaux 2009 en primeur — the dispatches! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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The selection is skewed toward typicity of varietal, region and style.
NY wine in grocery stores debate hears from three other states | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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The words “tradition” and “typicity” have done more to subvert the quality of French wine than a Gallo-Boisset partnership could accomplish in the wildest of their dreams.
Of Bicyclettes, terroir, typicité: Over on HuffPo… | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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This wine had great varietal typicity, but it may not appeal to New World Grenache fans.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Chapoutier by contrast believes those producers who filter are stripping their wines of their typicity, terroir, and personality, not to mention flavor.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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It is a quasi-modern-styled Châteauneuf-du-Pape but clearly has not lost its typicity.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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He agreed to do it in 1990 because the vintage was so extraordinary he knew the wine could absorb the new oak without losing its Hermitage typicity.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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In the vineyard, each rootstock must express in its way the particular character and typicity of the site.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005
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