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/kloi/,
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cloys, 3rd person singular present; cloying, present participle; cloyed, past tense; cloyed, past participle;
  1. Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment
    • - a romantic, rather cloying story
    • - a curious bittersweetness that cloyed her senses
    • - the first long sip gives a malty taste that never cloys
  1. overly sweet
  2. Unpleasantly excessive; Excessively sweet
  3. (cloyed) intruded upon by others claiming a share (Grosart).
  4. Overly sweet, and lacking the correct amount of acidity to give the wine balance.
  5. Describes ultra-sweet or sugary wines that lack the balance provided by acid, alcohol, bitterness or intense flavor.
  6. Cloying is a term used to describe a fragrance that’s sickly sweet and unpleasantly clinging.
  7. Describes sweet wines that lack the acidity to balance their sugar content. Rather than leaving the palate clean, a sticky, gummy sensation remains.
  8. Excessive sugar component annoys with dominating flavour and aftertaste. The wine is then demonstrably unbalanced relative to the other components.
  9. Mouth-coating, usually referring to a sweet wine and often a sign of a wine lacking in balancing acidity.
  10. An overly sweet wine that lacks balancing acidity and is therefore unpleasant and not refreshing. This should not be confused with the false praise that some winery visitors lavish on the vintner in the hope of a free bottle or two.
  11. Describes a wine that has insufficient acid to support its level of sweetness. In practical terms, it refers to a wine which is ‘sickly sweet’, unpalatable after the first glass or two.
  12. Used to describe sweet wines that do not have enough balancing acidity.
  13. Usually a negative characteristic, denoting that the wine has an overly sticky or syrupy quality to it. This is particularly noted in the finish of cheap dessert wines but can also happen in overripe Shiraz, Zinfandel and Petite Sirah.
  14. A sweet wine without a sufficient amount of acidity to balance the sweetness will often taste so sweet as to be cloying.
  15. A beer that is overly sweet to the point of being unpleasant.
  16. A sweet and heavy wine, which lacks acidity to make it crisp, balanced and interesting.
  17. In perfumery, cloying usually refers to a fragrance that is too sweet and too clingy.
  18. so sweet to become unpleasant
  19. A wine with a sticky or sweet character that is not balanced with acidity