Sentence examples for lesser wine from inspiring English sources
The late bottled vintage style, often abbreviated as LBV, is a lesser wine than vintage Port but can also be a good value because it is usually priced at less than €20 a bottle.
The best example here would be a top-quality German Riesling where ample acidity balances an impressive level of sweetness that would turn any lesser wine into simple syrup with a kick.
Barolo is far and away the most famous wine of the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, but there is another wine from this region that should be equally celebrated, yet is too often regarded as a lesser wine when compared to Barolo.
It was one of his lesser wines, a QbA Bird Label.
Their lesser wines, starting with Bourgogne Rouge, will cost around $20. A single bad experience, or reading boilerplate wine wisdom, can forever color a point of view.
While there were pleasant surprises among the 2011 grands crus and the better Crus Bourgeois, there were disappointments among the lesser wines.
"When you jack up the prices of the wines, the customers buy lesser wines and that diminishes the dining experience," he said.
He stockpiled empty bottles, and, with the care of a chemist, refilled them with mixtures of lesser wines blended to taste like the real thing.
DOLPHIN · PORPOISE · JUNK · THROW OFF Lesser wines that restaurants are obliged to buy in order to get an allocation of a wine they actually want (named after marine life netted accidentally).
But while winemakers still use oak barrels, oak chips are increasingly used to save money on lesser wines -- the chips are sprinkled into stainless steel vats to flavor a wine and give it an "oak flavor profile".
Of course, the chart concerns itself only with the classified growths, the finest of the Bordeaux wines, and ignores the hundreds of lesser wines, many of which, these days, are startlingly close to their better-known siblings in quality.
