How does wine produce a wide variety of flavor descriptions like berries, apples, grass, wet stone, etc..?
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Flavor descriptions for wine are very subjective, and can be influenced by many factors that the person can bring into the situation themselves. Where one person may taste raspberries another May taste cherries… There could be subtle differences like that, but the main differences that will be found between wines are going to come from geography, how much sun, Fog, rain, wind… as well as the soil, it’s Clay content, limestone… If it’s volcanic or other factors like that. And then the grape themselves are also going to produce different flavors. Some will have flavors like wet stone, mineral… horse leather, Barnyard… Earth, cherries, Apple… So on. These flavors are coming characteristics for that grape themselves, one can expect that pinot grigio is are going to have more mineral and stone flavors than a sauvignon Blanc which would have more grass, pear, tart apple, or exotic fruit…
Some things like tannins and acidity and sweetness can be measured. Some things like mushroom or leather, tobacco and plum are more subjective.
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