Words of wines

S.I.C.A.V.A.C - (Service Interprofessionnel de Conseil en Agronomie, Vinification et Analyses du Centre). Interprofessional department of advice in agronomy, wine making, analyses of the region Centre. Professional technical centre created in 1994, specialized in oenological/wine studies and advice.

"SAINT PAUL" - Patron saint of farmers. He is celebrated in the villages of Menetou-Salon and Morogues.

"SAINT VINCENT" - Patron saint of wine growers. Celebrated the 22nd of January, it gives rise to a great reunion among wine growers for one or more days.

SELECTION - Selection of the highest quality grapes during the harvest, avoiding the rotten or unripe grapes.

SENSORY ANALYSIS - Very precise description of all the feelings perceived during tasting.

SETTLING OF MUST - Decanting of a must so that solid matters in suspension can settle. The settlings are made after the pressing and last between 12 and 24 hours.

SHORT PRUNING - Bud prunings are short ones. (e.g Royat cordon or palmet prunings)

SLOPE - Incline of the soils on which are planted the parcels of vines. It is expressed in percentage or in degrees. The steeper the slope is, the higher the quality may be.

SMELL - = Aromas. Sensations perceived by the sense of smell thanks to the olfactory mucous membrane which is the receptor.

SOIL - Upper part of the earth's crust on which the vine grows.

SPECIAL RESERVE - Special wines differing from the usual production of an estate.

SPUR - Base of the vine shoot left after the pruning for the following year. (one spur with two buds is left for the Guyot pruning).

STAINLESS - A majority of the vats used for fermentation and wine maturing are made of stainless steel.

STALK - Structure of the bunch which bears the berries.

STEM - Wine term which designates a long cane left on the vine stock after the pruning. It will yield the fruits. A maximum of eight buds per stem are left for the Guyot pruning.

STILL (WINE) - A still wine is the opposite of an effervescent wine. (absence of carbon dioxide in superpressure)

STOCK - Vine stock.

STONE - Type of siliceous-clayey soil with flint.

STRUCTURE - All the components of the wine, linked to the balance of tastes and that depend on the grape quality.

SUGARS (OF THE GRAPE) - Saccharose contained in the berry and produced in the leaves by photosynthesis.

SULPHUR - Natural substance used in vine growing, mainly to fight against powdery mildew. Sulphur dioxide avoids the wine oxidation.

SULPHUR DIOXIDE - A sulphur-based substance traditionally used for the wine elaboration, in order to eliminate the yeasts or the non-qualitative bacteria and to facilitate their good keeping.

SULPHURED COMPOUNDS - Family of wine constituents to which a part of the Sauvignon Blanc aromas belong. Other sulphured compounds are present in wines that lack aeration.