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• Cuvée
  Blend of different wines to a new, possibly even better wine. Through the blending process the yearly climate changes are easier to handle by considering the various maturing times of different grapes.
  
• Clarity
  Wine clarity refers to the absence or presence of suspended particles or sediment in a wine. Today, most wines areclear or crystal clear.. Often the talk is also about "brilliant" wines. Only unfiltered wines or mature red wines (see sediment deposit) have suspended particles.
• Complex
  A wine that exhibits many different odours and flavours.
• Corked
  A mouldy odour and flavour caused from a fungus-infected cork. The chemical composition TCA and TCP and mould fungus (Armillaria Mellea) are responsible for this change in the smell.