Rich, light, heavy, thin and a score of others relate to the body of wine instead of tastes and smells. These impressions are much easier to share. Most of us would agree that a wine is heavy, or it is light. Therefore I try to use these more common images whenever possible. The colors of wine is a treatise in themselves.
White wine ranges in color from colorless through the yellows, the golds and into the brown hues.
Red wine goes from purple, to red, to orange or brick. The color of the wine gives some very definite clues as to its state of maturity. For white wines golden hues show age. In reds it is the orange hues that show the age. The fault that I am most guilty of is in using words and terms that I have made up.