There actually aren’t that many options to choose from along the color scale. For whites there are four: greenish-yellow, straw-yellow, golden-yellow, and amber; the rosé category has three: soft rosé, cherry-red, and dark rosé; and for red wines we have four again: purple-red, ruby, garnet, and orange-red. This vocabulary alone has been insightful. You can mix colors a bit, for instance a white wine can be greenish-yellow, tending toward straw, or a red wine could be garnet, with hints of orange-red.
Limpidity corresponds to the absence or presence of suspended particles in a wine, a limited amount of which can be OK, but generally speaking it’s frowned upon to see bits and pieces floating around in your glass. We measure this by choosing one adjective along a scale of five that best describes the wine we’re evaluating: veiled, quite limpid, limpid, crystal clear, or brilliant.
A wine’s consistency can be observed as a wine’s structure, or thickness in the glass, measured again along a scale of five:flowing, scarcely consistent, quite consistent, consistent, or oily. If we are evaluating a sparkling wine, we look at its effervescence, the presence of carbon dioxide bubbles. We are evaluating the size of the bubbles, thenumber there are, and how they persist in our glass. The size of the bubbles can be measured as: large, quite fine, or fine; the number of bubbles as: very few, quite numerous, or numerous; and the persistence of the wine as: fading, quite persistent, or persistent.
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