On 7 Aug 2004 01:29:32 GMT, (Hunt) wrote:

I'll also go out and try to find rather common wine smell descriptors, if they
are not
in my memory bank. Gooseberries (often associated with SB) are not that common
in the US. For me to know what a gooseberry smells like, I had to hunt all
over for
an example that did not come out of a can.

I thought everone knew that gooseberries tasted like SB :-)

I recently tried lychees (canned, not fresh, and not as a palate/nose
improvement exercise) and immediately thought "this tastes just like
gewurztraminer".

Another comment for our OP: Even for tastes/smells you thiink you
understand, it can be very useful to try them side-by-side. A useful
excercise for me was to try a range of citrus fruits at the same time.

--
Steve Slatcher
http://pobox.com/~steve.slatcher