YOU might think it would be child’s play to tell a Chardonnay from a Burgundy
just by sniffing them. But research in France suggests otherwise. When people
describe the nose of a wine they are actually talking about the way it
looks.
Gil Morrot at the National Institute for Agronomic Research in Montpellier
and his colleagues analysed the similes used by experts to describe the aromas
of wines. But when they looked for patterns in the descriptions they found that
the words were almost completely inconsistent.
“The only thing they all have in common is the difference between red and…
