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French for Wine Tasting

French for Wine Tasting – What Are French Words To Describe the Flavour of Wine?

In this lesson, we’ll explore ten words that you could use to describe different types of wine and their flavour in French.

Watch the video as many times as you need, until you feel you can give the French translations as we go!

Now we can see what we’ve learned. Look at the English and see if you can provide the French for these words:

Part 1:

acidic	Show acide
dry	Show sec
fruity	Show fruité
full-bodied	Show corsé
light	Show léger

Part 2:

semi-dry	Show demi-sec
oaky	Show boisé
spicy	Show épicé
sweet	Show doux, moelleux
very sweet	Show sucré

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