Structure: The load-bearing frame of a wine

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The standard

A named structural axis states which component carries the wine and in what proportion to the others. Without that statement, structure remains a collective word for an impression.

Criteria

The three components are named individually, not summed into one impression
Their proportion to one another is given, not merely their quantity
The statement remains valid when the aroma changes
Load-bearing capacity is judged separately from intensity

Distinction

Structure ≠ body: body is perceived mass, structure the arrangement of its carriers. Structure ≠ Texture: texture is the surface of the sensation, the named structural axis its substrate.