Limpidity and transparency : Opaque, shady, hazy, crystal, perfect.

Limpidity examination is carried out by putting the glass between the eye and a light placed at the same level.
Wine must be limpid without hazes or trails which are signs of diseases.
Transparency examination is carried out by examining wine on a white background tipping the glass up.
Young wines are transparent, old wines lose their transparency.

 Nuance : Crimson, dark red, ruby, purple, cherry, peony.

White wine shades go from almost colorless and clear yellow for a young wine to straw-colored, golden yellow, brass, bronze, amber for a mature or very old wine.
Rosé shades go from stain-white, salmon pink and very clear red for a young wine to pink with yellow shade and pale rosé for an old wine.
Red wine shades go from purplish for a very young wine, cherry red for 2 or 3 year-old wines which are not to keep, red with orange fringes for between 3 and 7 year-old wines to keep some time, to brown-red for great wines to keep a long time.

Brilliance : Matt, drab, dreary, bright, brilliant.

A wine with brilliance is considered as happy when a drab wine might be sad.

 Intensity : Light, bold, dark, deep, intense.

A too clear color shows a light wine you can keep a little while.
It can also mean a rainy year, an excessive yield, young vines, not enough ripe grapes or rotten grapes, a too short vating.
A dark color shows a fine wine or a wine with future.
It is the sign of a low yield with old vines and a successful vinification.