astringency

How To Use astringency In A Sentence

• Casein and gelatin function as adsorbents for phenolics and can reduce a wine's excess bitterness and astringency.
• Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity ’.
• Variations on a theme that come together with that touch of raw thyme that harkens back to the days he was working with Colicchio at the Tavern, and mustard greens and parmesan adding hottish astringency and sourness, middling the dish right at the level food in a restaurant called Hearth should be. Augieland:
• It was found that the modified myricaextract's viscosity was significantly decreased and its astringency was gentle.
• The astringency of the root of the dock is due to tannic acid, and the acidulousness of the leaves to tartaric acid and the binoxalate of potash. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
• The sonata is a major work that combines the young composer's acerbic wit and uncompromising harmonic astringency with a lyrical bent and cross-cultural echoes of Far Eastern musical modes.
• The walls of the fig fruit contain latex vessels that carry a protein-digesting enzyme, ficin, and tannin cells that contribute astringency. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
• Typical Bowmore suppleness but a tannic astringency cuts into its usual velvety texture and turns it into nubbly silk.
• Earlier, astringency had been considered as one of the primary taste sensations, like sweetness, sourness, and particularly bitterness with which it has often been confused.
• The palate shows sour cherries and tobacco, with astringency. Medium length with some tannin.