"They smell fruity but not taste fruity"
Blindfolded and nose completely blocked:
1) Can one tell the difference between high alcohol bone-dry white and dry
gin? Answer: no.
2) Which of the two would you say is fruit juice:
a) ripe pineapple juice - nothing added, nothing taken away,
b) ripe pineapple juice - with every trace of natural sweetness removed.
Answer: 'a'---right?
Conclusion: A fruity wine with its natural sweetness retained smells and
tastes fruity. A fruity wine vinified bone-dry is like fruity shampoo only
smells fruity.
We don't equate pure mango juice with mango-flavoured mineral water do we?
Ray