Themed journey · 13 chapters
Aromas & Flavor
From the first sniff to a wine fault: a journey through everything that makes wine smell and taste the way it does – from the aroma wheel to tannin, acidity, and the line between maturity and flaw.
Chapter 1How Smelling WorksNose and Throat
Chapter 2How Many Aromas Does Wine HaveEight Hundred Building Blocks
Chapter 3The Aroma WheelAnn Noble's Tool
Chapter 4Fruit AromasWhere Fruit Notes Come From
Chapter 5Flowers & HerbsRose to Rosemary
Chapter 6Spice & PepperThe Compound Rotundone
Chapter 7Secondary AromasYeast, Bread, Butter
Chapter 8Wood aromasVanilla and toast
Chapter 9Tertiary aromas of maturityWhat bottle age creates
Chapter 10Minerality – what's really behind itStone doesn't taste like anything
Chapter 11Sweetness, Acidity, Bitterness, UmamiThe true basic tastes
Chapter 12Tannin & BodyTannin and weight
Chapter 13Wine faultsWhen aroma turns