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Wine glossary

wine glossary (GB)
vino glossario (I)
vin glossaire (F)
vino glosario (ES)

See under wine lexicon.

The Wine lexicon from wein.plus is the world's largest online knowledge database on the subject of wine. It consists of over 26,000 keywords (terms). It contains descriptions of around 3,200 grape varieties, over 2,000 wineries, well over 10,000 different vineyard, wine and vinification terms, around 100 wine-growing countries with their wine-growing history, wine-growing regions, grape varieties, wineries and wines, over 600 biographies of famous wine-growing personalities as well as all important wine law issues. Since 1999, when it contained around 800 keywords, it has grown around 30-fold. The Lexicon is a "living" work, as suggestions from users are constantly being taken into account.

Weinglossar Stihwörter - Maischegärung, Château Margaux, Veredelung, Reblaus (Kreislauf), Zieregg (Riede)

Scope of the lexicon

Most of the keywords contain very detailed texts with many graphics and images. Over 197,000 cross-references (hyperlinks) refer to other keywords - these are highlighted in red. In addition, over 47,000 synonyms (alias terms) have been created. This means that 73,000 terms lead to a hit. In printed form, this would result in over 6,000 pages in A4 format with pure text. However, as more than 4,400 keywords contain at least one image/graphic, because "pictures say more than 1,000 words", the result is around 6,000 pages.

Weinglossar - Buchregal mit vielen Weinbüchern, die dem Umfang des Glossars entsprechen

Searching for terms

With a Wine lexicon of this size, the question inevitably arises as to the quickest way to find the desired information. There are basically two options:

1) Click on 0-9 or a letter (encyclopaedia terms by initial letter)
2) Enter a search term in the search field

Weinlexikon - Suchleiste

With option 1, all keywords are displayed in alphabetical order and the total number is also listed. You can now determine whether there is a desired keyword or a similar one. However, this can be time-consuming, as there are well over 1,000 keywords for many letters. If a particular word is not found under C, you should look under K or Z; the same applies to Ch under Dsch and Tsch, F under Ph, J under Y, Sch under Ch and Sh and V under W (and vice versa, of course).

In variant 2, a term or the desired information is entered in the search field, whereby no diacritical characters need to be taken into account. These are dots, dashes, tick marks, arcs or circles that indicate a different pronunciation or emphasis and are placed above or below the letter. Diacritical marks are particularly common in eastern and southern languages (Greek, Croatian, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Czech, Turkish, Hungarian, etc.). This means that "a" can be used instead of "â" or "n" instead of "ñ" or "c" instead of "ç". This also applies to "ß" and umlauts - units of measurement are also found with "Maßeinheiten", "alteste Weine" with " älteste Weine " and "Grosse Lage" with " Grosse Lage ". There is also no need to pay attention to capitalisation, hyphens and blanks. Minor spelling mistakes are also tolerated; "Eziehungsfom" will find "Erziehungsform".

Results

If the specified "search word" matches an existing "keyword" 1:1, it will be displayed first. All other keywords listed are sorted by relevance. The longer the keyword (containing the search term as a part) is, or the less it matches it, the less relevant it is and is therefore displayed further down. Of course, there may be "many" keywords.

Weinglossar Stichwörter - Torna Viagem, Franreich, Anthraknose, Fruchtbombe, Biowein

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Sigi Hiss

There is a vast number of sources on the web where one can acquire knowledge about wine. But none has the scope, timeliness and accuracy of the information in the encyclopaedia at wein.plus. I use it regularly and rely on it.

Sigi Hiss
freier Autor und Weinberater (Fine, Vinum u.a.), Bad Krozingen

The world's largest Lexicon of wine terms.

26,367 Keywords · 46,924 Synonyms · 5,323 Translations · 31,701 Pronunciations · 201,867 Cross-references
made with by our author Norbert F. J. Tischelmayer. About the Lexicon

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