raisiny

Not really, but aside from the cautionary note about the raisiny character, he makes the wine sound interesting.

It has a gentle raisiny sweetness and an aroma of hazelnuts.

Its honeyed, raisiny bouquet has the come-on of a sweet dessert wine.

The panelists found it too heavy and alcoholic, with the raisiny flavor of overripe grapes.

The grape is known for the deep color it produces in a wine as well as its coarse and raisiny taste.

It is a huge, raisiny alcoholic wine that tastes very old-fashioned and would overwhelm anything not filled with flavor.

The vodka sits there, astringently, making no effort to have a meaningful conversation with the sweet, raisiny Madeira.

Shipley felt it was too raisiny; Hesser said it lacked individuality.

Most of it was utter swill: thin and sour, or thick, raisiny and volatile.

The best were juicy and rich, bordering on jammy but never quite crossing over into baked or raisiny flavors.

The raisiny sweetness, which is not cloying, is checked by the appealingly tart acidity.

Goat cheese and mushroom tart suffers the same fate, with a raisiny sauce that soaks its puff-pastry crust.

While some producers delay harvest in order to increase sugar levels as a balance to Barbera's acidity, over ripeness can lead to raisiny flavors.

With dessert, a warm chocolate hazelnut cake with figs and apricots, I ordered a viscous, raisiny dessert sherry.

The signature Sierra foothills zinfandel is robust and almost rustic, with potent fruit flavors that can taste almost raisiny, a testament to the hot climate.

We contemplated the raisiny ways of a bar from Papua New Guinea, which Mr. Miller suggested would go well with port.

With dessert, a variation on creme caramel, we drank glasses ($4.25 each) of dark, raisiny Moscato di Pantelleria Bukkuram.

Yet on the day itself, after the stodgy raisiny pleasures of Christmas pudding, you don't really feel like another stodgy raisiny thing.

The menu recommends the Commandaria St. John from Cyprus, a thick, raisiny wine that splits the difference between Madeira and sherry.

The smooth dark brown moscatel (muscat), a powerfully raisiny near-syrup redolent of dates, caramel, butterscotch and brown sugar, invites slowly measured sipping.

For years, tank trucks of rough, raisiny primitivo headed north every fall, destined for use, unacknowledged, to add heft to Chianti, Barbaresco and even red Burgundy.

These wines have none of the baked, raisiny qualities that are so often typical of old-fashioned hot-weather red wines, yet they are by no means Bordeaux or Tuscan knockoffs.

Beginning with an aromatic bouquet with appley notes, Corey Creek's white delivers a lush baked-apple, honeylike, raisiny flavor, with buttery undertones and background wood as a condiment.

The familiar aroma of honey, litchi and rose petals, the unrelieved density of dried apricot and raisiny flavors and the standard beerlike bitterness in the finish are all likable.