grapy , also: grapey

The ripe, grapy fruit with a slightly sweet, nutty edge, calls to mind roasted chestnuts.

The wine is grapy, berrylike and satisfying.

With its purple color and strong grapy flavor, this year's nouveau, slightly chilled, will enhance any holiday occasion.

The 2003 merlot ($17.99), grapy and soft, is minimally acceptable.

Our 1985 Hawk Crest chardonnay ($12.95) was a lively, grapy treat.

Though now and then the full, grapy flavor seems seamless, at other moments eddies of separate nuances come and go.

Certainly, the nouveau, for what it is, is very good, and if you like young purple grapy wine, this is it.

Expect an aroma of crushed berries, plums and wood and a concentrated grapy flavor laced with anise.

Though the fleshy, grapy bouquet is big and open, the wine - fresh, on the lean side and somewhat stern - needs pork or a veal chop.

It's grapy and raisiny, and has a vein of grapefruit and hints of apricot in its long, piquant finish.

Since no two harvests are alike, the generally balanced '87 nouveaus differ from the acidic 84's, opulently grapy 85's and somewhat lean 86's.

This reserve wine, priced at $49 but now sold out, was sumptuous, succulent, full of depth and power, deeply grapy, smoky, oaky and packed with nuances.

Tom lifted his glass and sipped: a dusty, stony, slightly grapy flavor, intensely pleasing - the more it sat in his mouth, the more taste it gave him.

Wines labeled Barco Reale di Carmignano are younger and lighter than other Carmignanos, with a pronounced grapy flavor.

It is grown very high in the foothills of the Himalayas and has a light grapy flavour, although I find it can become slightly acidic if brewed for too long.

The Moscato di Pantelleria from Marco de Bartoli has a glistening mahogany colour and is at once aromatic, grapy and intensely rich.

Personable and firm at the uncorking, the wine displayed a grapy aroma redolent of black currant; the flavor during dinner was vivacious but restrained, and by next morning everything had loosened up.

It is part of a palette that begins with the charred, grapy smell of the air and ends only after the first grapes are pressed and the subsequent wine is aged and uncorked.

The Channing Daughters merlot's grapy bouquet, alive with vanilla notes from the oak barrels used to mature the wine, and a sprinkle of herbs, gives way to a smooth and succulent drink.

For generations, New York wine makers were content to work with native American labrusca grapes, turning out pungent, grapy wines with names like Pink Catawaba, Cayuga, Concord and Niagara.

Robert Parker, the renowned wine handicapper, calls a limited release Hearty Burgundy (only slightly more expensive than the regular) "a full-bodied, grapy wine with much more character than many wines costing 10 or 20 times as much."

Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

As we wandered through Dr. Reich's gooseberries, I sampled Hinnonmakis Yellow, a small golden berry with a hint of apricot, and Achilles, a large plum-size berry with a greenish skin and a grapy taste.

These winemakers have little or no interest in Beaujolais nouveau, complaining that it makes many potential customers think all Beaujolais should be light, grapy and simple, while they are making rich, intense wines they hope will rival the more lordly Burgundies made five miles to the north.