Why does wine taste good?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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What's the Weirdest Taste of Wine?
A lot of those flavours in wine are actually the same chemicals that you can recognise in other places. Some cabernets, cevignons can have quite a strong green beans type aroma. That's due to methoxy pyrazines, which are also found in green capsicums and green beans. There are some other flavours that we see in wine that contribute to certain characters that come up in unexpected places. Another example of that is a character which is beautiful nutty, coconutty character in wine that we call wine lactone. We have it here if you want to smell it. It's called ochlactone.
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