Denotes a wine having an aggressive, prickly taste best described as "peppery" Sometimes combined with the adjective "brawny" to characterize a young red wine with high alcohol and tannin content
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc ; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
High tannin and alcohol wines, usually fresh, with spiciness and pepper aggressively dominating