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  2. Acquired taste - Wikipedia

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    The process of acquiring a taste can involve developmental maturation, genetics (of both taste sensitivity and personality), family example, and biochemical reward properties of foods. Infants are born preferring sweet foods and rejecting sour and bitter tastes, and they develop a preference for salt at approximately 4 months. However ...

  3. Glossary of winemaking terms - Wikipedia

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    A wine that has the barest hint of sweetness; a slightly sweet wine in which the residual sugar is barely perceptible. Orange wine A white wine with extending skin contact, similar to red wine production. The opposite of a rosé Organic winemaking

  4. Wine tasting descriptors - Wikipedia

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    Musty: a wine with a "dank, old-attic smell" arising from processing moldy grapes or using dirty storage containers. [18] Nose: the aroma, smell or bouquet of a wine. [20] Oaky: a wine with a noticeable perception of the effects of oak. This can include the sense of vanilla, sweet spices like nutmeg, a creamy body and a smoky or toasted flavor ...

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  6. Apéritif and digestif - Wikipedia

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    Fino sherry is a classic apéritif.. An apéritif is an alcoholic beverage usually served before a meal to stimulate the appetite, and is usually dry rather than sweet.. Common choices for an apéritif are vermouth; champagne; pastis; gin; ouzo; fino; amontillado or other styles of dry sherry (but not usually cream or oloroso blended sherry, which is very sweet and

  7. Glossary of wine terms - Wikipedia

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    Wine with a sharp, sweet-and-sour tang. The acescence characteristics frequently recalls a vinegary smell. Adamado Portuguese term for a medium-sweet wine Adega Portuguese wine term for a winery or wine cellar. Almacenista Spanish term for a Sherry producer who ferments and matures the wine before selling it to a merchant Altar wine

  8. Retronasal smell - Wikipedia

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    Retronasal smell is a sensory modality that produces flavor. It is best described as a combination of traditional smell (orthonasal smell) and taste modalities. [1] Retronasal smell creates flavor from smell molecules in foods or drinks shunting up through the nasal passages as one is chewing.

  9. Umami - Wikipedia

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    Sweet and umami tastes both utilize the taste receptor subunit TAS1R3, with salt taste blockers reducing discrimination between monosodium glutamate and sucrose in rodents. [ 24 ] If umami doesn't have perceptual independence, it could be classified with other tastes like fat, carbohydrate, metallic, and calcium, which can be perceived at high ...