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A glass of Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush anyone?
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"... when it comes to wine, excrement analogies are generally considered high praise.
Nowhere is this more the case than in France, where old Burgundies in particular are prized for their faint manure-like scent, or as it's more euphemistically known, "barnyard." ...
Perhaps the most infamous smell applied to wine -- sometimes pejoratively, sometimes not -- is cat's urine. It's a sign of early-harvested sauvignon blanc, a grape that tends to taste of gooseberries, wet stone and gun metal.
Almost every wine pejorative has its euphemistic counterpart. For cat's urine, it's "crushed green coriander." Sounds appealing all of a sudden, doesn't it? In New Zealand, source of some of the world's most boisterously scented whites, there's even a brand called Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush. ...
Among my favourite wine scents are "tar," common to northern Rhône syrahs and Piedmontese Barolos, and "leather," which leaps out from some old Bordeaux and Burgundies. Very old European reds can smell, according to connoisseurs of a certain class, like "sweaty saddle." ...
Referring to German riesling as having a bouquet of "petrol" or "diesel" ... One expensive riesling I tasted years ago actually put me in mind of the other end of the internal-combustion reaction -- the exhaust pipe. It was delicious. ...
And those are just the laudatory terms. Defects have their own set of zany adjectives: wet socks (cork taint); bad eggs (hydrogen sulphide); nail polish remover (volatile acidity); and more. ..."
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