Grapy

As vivid gouts of Dago Red saturated a nearby snowbank, turning it a deep, grapy purple, a cameraman from Pathé News gave a local man called “Necktie” Sensiba fifty cents to drop to his knees and eat the snow. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

It is a hardy variety with some bunch-rot disease resistance, but can easily result in foxy, grapy flavors if not picked early enough. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And when Brookie lets the poor thing loose, it galumphs to the mirror and backs up to see its grapy leg. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)

The huge, opaque 1983 Unico Reserva is fat and grapy, with massive flavor concentration; an expansive, sweet, jammy, black currant fruitiness; spicy oak; and a long, robust, spicy finish. ❋ Jr. Robert M. Parker (2005)

Displaying the darker aromas and flavors typical for a Claude Dugat Charmes-Chambertin, the 2000 offers plummy black-berry scents as well as a grapy, black cherry–dominated personality. ❋ Jr. Robert M. Parker (2005)

The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve was grapy, un-evolved, and primary when I tasted it. ❋ Jr. Robert M. Parker (2005)

Although it remains unevolved and somewhat grapy, everything is present for a fabulous evolution of two decades or more. ❋ Jr. Robert M. Parker (2005)

Delicious since age five to six, it remains a husky, forceful, grapy, exuberant wine with gobs of cassis fruit presented in an unctuously textured, thick, succulent style. ❋ Jr. Robert M. Parker (2005)

While still young and grapy, this 1998 is loaded with potential. ❋ Jr. Robert M. Parker (2005)

Small estates prefer to do malolactic in barrel because they believe it integrates the wood better and gives the wine a more forward sweetness early in life, making the young, grapy wine more appealing to wine journalists/critics who descend on Bordeaux every spring to taste the newest vintage. ❋ Jr. Robert M. Parker (2005)