ascescence

English

Noun

ascescence (uncountable)

1. (oenology) A sharp sweetish and sourish quality of wine, arising from the presence of acetic acid and ethyl acetate.
   • 1825, James Busby, A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, and the Art of Making Wine, page 228:

     As the ascescence of wine is by far the most common, one might almost say it is the most natural disease of wine; for the vinous is naturally followed by the acetous fermentation.

   • 1868, The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, page 270:

     […] he affirmed that the gypsum prevented the ascescence of the wine made from the Bourre and the Aramon.

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