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T4 Flavors

Taste Category (Tier 1)	Primary Tastes (Tier 2)	Secondary Tastes (Tier 3)	Vintage	Notes
Carmelization	Carmelization	Butter	0
		Molasses	1
		Soy Sauce	2
		Chocolate	2
Chemicals	Pungency	Ethanol	0	Could Chemicals be an assumption?
Pungency	Heat	Hot Alcohol	0	Pung no glass, Heat mid-range, HotA high glass--Tedra
	Coolness	Menthol	0
Earthyness	Earthyness	Mushrooms	1	See (1) below.
Floral Notes	Floral Notes	Orange Blossoms	0
		Linalool	1
		Roses	1
Fruit	Berries	Raspberry	0
	Tree Fruit	Apricot	1
		Cherry	0
		Peach	0
		Apple	3
	Tropical Fruit	Pineapple	1	getting tropical fruit only at 1 vintage with 9k glass so may be another flavor here - Cravat
		Banana	0
Microbiological Smells	Yeast	Leesy	2
Vegetables	Cooked Notes	Asparagus	1
		Green Olives	1
		Black Olives	<=2
		Mushrooms	0 or 1	I got this as Earthyness/Earthyness (as above).
	Freshness	Bell Pepper	0
		Green Beans	1
		Mint	0 or 1
		Eucalyptus	2 or 3	See (2) below.
Woodiness	Burned Smells	Smoke	0
	Resin	Cedar	1
		Oak	1
Nuttiness	Nuttiness	Almond	0
		Hazelnut	0

Notes

1. I got both Mushrooms and Roses on a v1 single yard bottle. Two flavors from one vintage? Or is Mushrooms actually 0? Also, my spouse only got the Roses, so Mushrooms may require a higher palate. --Shebi 22:28, 27 February 2009 (EST)
2. I got Freshness with Bell Pepper (0) and Green Olives (1) in a v3 wine all in the top glass. A neighboring vineyard gave Vegetables/Freshness/Eucalyptus, so they may be the same, or there may be another veggie still out there. --Shebi 22:46, 27 February 2009 (EST)
3. I got Vegetables -> Freshness -> Mint (wine was one vintage old, but could be v0 or v1) -- merek

Reading The Flavor Chart

Vintage indicates how old the wine was when the flavor first appeared in the wine.

• If a wine contains flavors that have not developed at the wine's current vintage age, those flavors will not be detectable when the wine is tasted.
• If no flavors are detectable, a wine will report as Thin and not give tasting checks for quality.
• As the wine ages and flavors come in, the wine will stop being Thin.

Note: It is the age on the Secondary Taste that brings the flavor in, not the Taste Category or Primary Taste.

For example:

• Bell Pepper (0) and Green Beans (1) are both Vegetable/Freshness flavors.
• If a wine only has the Green Beans flavor in it, it will report as Thin until it is 1 vintage old (not giving the Vegetable or Freshness flavors).
• Bell Pepper, on the other hand, will show Vegetable, Freshness, and Bell Pepper flavors on different glasses starting at 0 vintages old.

Related Pages

• Wine Flavors By Vintage
• T3 Flavors - archived to reduce confusion/page length