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Wine aroma wheel or road maps for flavour |
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This is the most common off flavour attributed to a corked taste in wine. It has one of the lowest aroma thresholds |


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More wines today have this flavour. Especially whites from New Zealand. They have a common aroma a tropical sulphur note that sometimes gives rise to a gooseberry description. It has been identified as 4-mercapto-4-methyl-pentan-2-one, how we perceive this depends on its concentration. Possible use in Passionfruit and Blackcurrant. |
