When we taste wine professionally we always talk about the finish of a wine. What is that?
The finish is essentially your last impression of the wine after you have tasted it. The aftertaste or final impression. Sometimes we’ll say it has a bitter finish or a dry finish or even a long or short finish indicating how long the aftertaste lasts in the mouth after tasting the wine.
The word finish first entered the English language as a verb around 1350 and then became used as a noun from the late 18th century onwards.
Like many English words, the stem comes from French and the latin word ‘finis’, meaning end.
