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Black currants
The slight smell and taste of black currants often found in Bordeaux wines.
Body ...
Black currant: Bordeaux wines with a high percentage of Cabernet-Sauvignon, and similarly-based California wines may recall blackcurrant or cassis flavor as do some Syrahs.
Black currant
Cabernet Sauvignon, Cotes de Nuit, some Syrah, Moulis, Listrac, young Margaux, Pauillac, St Estèphe
Berries ...
Fruit: black currant, blackberry, black cherry
Oak (light): vanilla, coconut, sweet wood
Herbal: bell pepper, asparagus (methoxy-pyrazine), green olive ...
Cabernet - black currant, cherry other, black fruits, green spices
Merlot - plum, red and black fruits, green spices, floral
Zinfandel - black fruits (often jammy), black spices - often called "briary" ...
black fruitsAromas and flavours found typically in red wines including those of blackberries, black currants, blueberries and black cherries. black grapesGrapes with reddish or blue pigment in their skins used to make red wine.
Cassis The French term for the flavors associated with black currant. In wine tasting, the use of cassis over black currant typically denotes a more concentrated, richer flavor.
A variety of fruit odors and tastes, apart from the obvious one of grapes, may be discerned in wine apple, apricot, black currant, blackberry, blueberry, cherry, citrus, peach, pear, plum, ...
When harvested overripe the wines can taste jammy and may have aromas of stewed black currants.
Flavors are complex and delicious, showing black raspberry, black currant, cassis, blueberry, boysenberry, earth, coffee, tar, tobacco, pepper, and slight twinges of spice and a vegetal component. Texture is smooth, almost creamy.
Black fruits
Wine aromas and/or flavours that suggest black currants, black cherries, blackberries, blueberries, or other black fruit.
Black grapes
Wine grapes with a blue or reddish skin pigmentation that are used to make red wines.
Fruity
Having the aroma or flavor of fruits such as apple, black currant, cherry, citrus, pear, peach, raspberry, strawberry, or, of course, grape. Typically associated with young, light wines.
Full-bodied fragrance and taste of blackcurrants, and black currants leaves.
Merlot: With shades of sweet-cherry and/or cherry, the wine has long aftertaste.
Pinot Noir: full-bodied, oily wine. It is used as a base in blend wines.
Fruity
Aroma and/or flavor reminiscent of fruits; apple, black currant, cherry, citrus, pear, peach, pineapple, raspberry, or strawberry. Descriptive of wines with dominant fruit flavors.
2004 Rancho Zabaco, Zinfandel, Monte Rosso Vineyard, Sonoma Valley, California, $35, 220 cases. Black currants, cherries and coconut abound on the nose and palate.
Cabernet Sauvignon (black currants, cassis, cherry, cedar and spice) ...
Fruity-Aroma and/or flavor of grapes; most common to young, light wines but refers also to such fruit flavors in wine as apple, black currant, cherry, citrus, pear, peach, raspberry, or strawberry; ...
Bitter
A taste sensation generally experienced on the back of the tongue.
Black fruits
Wine aromas and/or flavors that suggest black currants, black cherries, blackberries, blueberries, or other black fruit.
Fruit
Term, literally, for the fruit element in a wine. It may not taste of grapes, but it will resemble a fruit of some kind -- e.g., black currant, strawberry, apple -- and is crucial to the flavor of any wine ...
Wines from Pauillac tend to be dark, almost inky, that imparts black currants, cherries, spice, cedar, complexity, and ultimately elegance and opulence.
Same concentrated, tightly knit fruit on the palate, wonderful ripeness, still showing youthful black currants and blackberries, firm backbone but ripe tannins, superb structure.
Sangiovese
The superstar of the Tuscan winemaking scene, Sangiovese takes a long, warm growing season to produce the best fruit, redolent of truffles, blackberries and black currants.
At its most powerful, Cabernet Sauvignon is deeply colored, tannic and oaky from barrel aging. Lighter versions are made fresh and fruity. Its aromas can evoke black currant, cedar, herbaceousness, berries and, with age, undergrowth and tobacco.
He strove to conjure up the aroma of a Chateau Margaux or a Leoville-Poyferre. Occasionally a small miracle would occur, and the scent of black currants and plum would permeate the dusty heat of Lebanon.
Aromas may include fruit, spice, and other smells associated with a particular grape variety, region, or condition of the wine. The bouquet of a Merlot, for example, will often contain aromas of raspberry and cassis (black currant).
 See also: Wine, Sweet, Red, White, Grape
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