When it comes to the aroma of wine, you may think of fruit, floral, aged aroma, and so on. In fact, there is a leather flavor in some wines, but it will not affect the taste of the wine.
Of course, winemakers don’t use leather products when they make wine, so where does the leather taste come from?
In fact, the aroma of leather is closely related to the tannins in wine.
Tannins, WHICH ARE EXTRACTED FROM PLANTS, ARE USED TO TREAT THE LEATHER FOR PRESERVATION. Tannins penetrate into the leather and combine with proteins to produce the leather’s unique aroma molecules.
Red wine also contains a lot of tannins. During the ripening process, the wine usually contains yeast that dies after the alcohol is fermented. The protein in the yeast can combine with the tannins and easily develop a leather flavor.
This is especially true for wines that are very tannin rich and often bottled after long-term oak barrel culture.
It can also be seen that the “leather smell” is not to be seen, as it is usually only found in good red wines that have been aged for a long time.
As mentioned above, the leather aroma in a wine does not affect the aroma and taste of the wine to make the drinker feel uncomfortable. It is a transparent taste, a secondary or subsidiary taste, and does not become the primary taste.
If it becomes the dominant flavor, then the wine may have really changed its quality, especially for a young wine, and it is not a good thing to find leather in it.
It is only when the wine is aged that the taste of leather is gradually developed.
Leather is found in wines from hotter climates, such as those from southern France.
Leather is often found in wines like Madiran from Tannat grapes in southwestern France or Bandol from Mourvedre grapes in the southeast, or even Medoc from Bordeaux.
In addition, wines from Greece often have a leather flavor, but other wines, including dessert wines, also have a fascinating leather flavor, which is a bit like Havana.
Red wines from the Mediterranean region tend to be leathery, although Bordeaux wines aged more than 30 years will also have this flavor.
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