'97 Reds

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flabby
In wine parlance, a descriptor for a wine that's heavy on the palate. Such a wine is seriously deficient in acidity, structure, and, subsequently, in flavor. This descriptor came from epicurious wine dictionary. Oxidation will cause flabbiness. The next time you're drinking a wine that you like leave a little in the bottle for 5 days or so and sample again. The experience is similar to a soft drink going flat. Bad winemaking can also produce wines that are flabby as well as some wines produced for the masses. These wines are produced as easy drinking wines, extremly smooth, low acidity and very little tannic bite. A flabby wine will lay heavy in the mouth.

Drew