Wine Terms Starting with Q

Short for Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete. QbA is the mid-range of three categories delineating the quality of German wines. The other categories are QmP (the highest) and DMW (the lowest).

An abbreviated form of Qualitätswein mit Prädikat, which translates loosely as "quality wine with distinction" and denotes the highest quality of German wines.

Wine that is drinkable, but not special.

Usually inexpensive wine without faults that is easy to drink on release.

A simple wine, that you can drink everyday.

Italian term for the quality of a wine

Austria's mark for quality wine. Qualitätswein wines are demarcated by a red-and-white striped bottle seal (typically found on the top of the capsule) that indicates the wine passed 2 inspections (a chemical and tasting analysis).

Italian term for oak

The term refers to a farm, a rural property or an estate in Portugal. The term also refers to an appellation for agricultural estates, such as wineries, vineyards, and olive groves.

Qvevri are large earthenware (typically clay) vessels used for the fermentation, storage and ageing of traditional Georgian wine. They vary in shape and sizes but typically resemble large, egg-shaped amphorae without handles, they are either buried below ground or set into the floors of large wine cellars, with just the neck of the vessel showing avove the surface. They lend themselves beautifully to minimal intervention wines as the shape of the vessel facilitates the settling of lees and sediment to the small reducing the need for racking and filtering. The vessels are enjoying a bit of a renaissance at the moment as consumers are more and more willing to go the natural or minimal intervention wine route.