Fruits, Vegetables, Spices, Meat, Flowers, Coffee and Chocolate

Is this my grocery list? A menu for a special event? Guess again....

These are just some of the aromas associated with wine. If you are an official vanyiac and watch WLTV, Gary will have introduced you to some others. (Skittles, wet blue stones or sweaty socks)

Whites:

Fruit:
Apple (Green Or Golden?)
Pear
Pineapple
Melon
Lemon
Orange
Grapefruit
Gooseberry
Quince
Lime
Apricot
Peach (under-ripe, ripe, over-ripe?)
Nectarine

Non-Fruit
Oak
Toast
Floral(Rose, Jasmine or Iris)
Herbs (Mint, Tarragon, Thyme & Rosemary
Spices: (Vanilla, Sandalwood, Cloves, Cinnamon, Black or White Pepper)
"Cut Grass"


Reds:

Fruits:
Blackberry
Plum
Black Cherry
Raspberry
Red Cherry
Currant
Dried Cherry
Cranberry
Pomegranate
Strawberry
Prune
Raisin
Tomato

Non-Fruit
Almond
Chocolate
Coffee
Tar (Asphalt)
Tobacco
Leather
Honey
Hay
Smoke
Roast Meat
Raw Burger
Game
Barnyard
Wet Dog
Earth
Petrol
Rubber (Burned)
Mushrooms
Gun flint
Veggies-Asparagus, Bell Peppers

Our wine club is meeting next month to make our own aroma kits. There will be many of these ingredients steeping in some neutral red and white wine. With the leftovers, we are going to Spain and Mexico. (hint)