Crunchy? Salinity? Drop these adjectives into your wine speak and you’ll be right on trend. But what do these adjectives, when it comes to wine, really mean?
‘Salinity’ might seem self-evident, or not. ‘Crunchy,’ on the other hand, is truly squirrely. Trying to gather a consensus on the accurate way to use the words, I reached out to a few wine friends to see how they would define them.