Chemins Vignerons

Astringency:
Both a taste and tactile quality noted for constricting or contracting the inner mouth, as an unripe persimmon would, but caused in wine primarily by tannins absorbed from the skins and seeds of the base from which the wine was made. An excessively astringent wine is said to be "rough" or "harsh" or "tannic." Astringency is particularly noticeable in young, red table wines. Astringency tends to mellow or smooth out with aging. It differs from bitterness in that astringency is felt throughout the mouth, while bitterness is experienced only by the tastebuds of the tongue.