When wine pros talk about flavor in wine, often they get caught up in the taste versus aroma debate.
You see, your mouth (or tastebuds) can only detect a few taste components: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami
Aromas, or what something smells like, is a whole new story, as we can smell many, many more things. In wine, as in food and other beverages, it is a combination of aromas and taste that make up flavor.
At Wine4.Me, we prefer to keep things simple.
When we talk about flavors in wine here, we are talking about the combination of the taste and aroma, as it’s not often that someone will make a distinction between the two, unless they are a sensory scientist, or a sommelier, or a winemaker, or someone else along those lines. People just enjoying wine? They talk about the combo. So that’s what we do here.
When we ask about the intensity of our key flavor attributes, please don’t overthink it. Just let us know: How sweet, spicy, oaky, minerally, or floral of a wine are you in the mood for? Let us know what you want, and our flavor filtering tool will hook you up with solid recommendations. It’s that simple.
Cheers!
