Learning To Recognize The Aromas of Wine

Swirl and sniff swirl and sniff. What do you smell? The buzz words I hear are, fruit, floral, tobacco. Flint. What do you think of when someone says, I smell floral notes? I think, what do you mean, are you smelling roses, jasmine, carnations? Fruit…..black fruit or red fruit? Are we talking red apples here, strawberries, or raspberries? They all smell different, so what exactly are you trying to say? Currants, how many times have you heard, I smell currants. Quite frankly, I have never smelled a currant so how do I know what a currant smells like. Tobacco…what does that mean? A dirty ashtray, a pipe, tobacco growing in a field? Flint, what in the world does flint smell like?

I can only imagine what comes next.

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