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| Fatty/Unctuous:wine which fills the mouth, greasy and smooth with body and high content in glycerin. |
| Feminine/ Féminin: It does not mean weak structure but that it has delicacy, elegancy and seduction. |
| Fermentation: Transformation of the grape sugar into ethyl alcohol and carbonic gas by means of yeasts. |
| Fino: with a superior quality. In the case of the Jerez wines, it is of the highest in distinction, the one that does not have mixtures neither is sweetened. |
| Firm: with good tannins or acidity with incisive taste. |
| Flabby: weak, feeble. It could be a poor wine or that it has a defect of decrepitude. |
| Flat/Stale: Wine of little consistence on the palate, which has lost its attributes, in many cases it is owned to an undesirable oxidation. |
| Flavoursome/Tasty: Quality of certain fresh, vigorous and vivacious white wines. |
| Fleshy/Meaty: Dense wine, thick, which fulls the mouth, less alcoholic than a wine with body. |
| Flexible: Easy to appreciate with a correct combination of virtues. Soft and indulgent. |
| Flinty: Aromatic touch which reminds to the drops of the Flint or to the tinder which appears in certain white wines together with the smoked. |
| Floral, Flowery, Fragrant: with smell to flowers. It could be of flowers in general or of flowers of vineyards in particular which is positive and pompous. |
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