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butter bomb

noun

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  1. A wine in which diacetyl is deliberately promoted in order to impart a buttery flavour.

    • ...this wine has the structure for another 1-3 years of aging. Classic WA Chardonnay, great with food, but not the typical "butter bomb" from California (thankfully!).
    • ...between $4 and $5 a bottle, you can't go wrong with those big butter-bomb styles.
    • 1981 — for a wine that saw no malo, this is a butter bomb. Butter over baked apple pie, despite fullness there is good crispness, my favorite of night.

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