Black fruits

Black Fruits
A general term for wine aromas and flavours that suggest blackberries, blueberries, black cherries, blackcurrants, or other black fruits.

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.

Zinfandel - black fruits (often jammy), black spices - often called "briary"
Syrah (aka Shiraz, depending on vineyard location) - black fruits, black spices - especially white and black pepper
Pinot Noir - red fruits, floral, herbs ...

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.

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.

The nose has typical Cabernet aromas - black fruits, leather, earth, tar, black pepper - as well as a good dose of black licorice and some spice. In the mouth it is full, fruit-forward, and borderline jammy.

However a glass of good Sagrantino begins to fascinate the taster with its dark and deep red color and, after passing it under the nose, it is pretty hard to be indifferent to its strong aromas of black fruits, especially blackberry, ...

Merlot- "Juicy blueberries and ripe strawberries lure the palate into a meandering river of black fruits, spicy clove and lush plum."
Shiraz- "Generous ripe berry fruit leads to a lush, soft, balanced finish." ...

Good syrah offers a captivating aroma of ripe black fruits, black pepper, and a distinctive gamey scent aficionados often compare to the smell of roasting meat.

The flavor offers a blend of juicy black fruits and sweet oak, a hint of anise, soft tannins and tangy acidity. It seems a bit more austere than some past vintages at first.

Ripe fruit, high alcohol, chocolate, black fruits and lashings of oak are typical of South Australian Shiraz; the wines of the the northern Rhone are more perfumed with aromas of white pepper and violets; lighter body and lower alcohol.

See also: Black fruit, Fruit, Wine, Grape, Tannin