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0xbadcafebee on May 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Has wine gone bad?

I once drank a bottle of some white wine from the central valley, I have no idea what it was, but I had several people taste it in case I was losing my marbles, and it tasted like chocolate. REALLY like chocolate. A white wine. It was not made with any chocolate.

Aromas are just chemicals floating in the air, anyway.

DennisP on May 17, 2018 [–]

I just read (in a book about scotch) that alcohol can react with a component in European oak to make a chemical that tastes like chocolate. So I'm guessing your white wine was aged for a good while.

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