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Mouse droppings in wine - figuratively
Karen Goetz, US: Many of the undesirable micro-organisms that can be found in wine have such distinctive aromas and flavours. I wished I had a reference book the other day when an ever so slightly cloudy red wine from the Loire crossed my palate. Mice faeces, I thought; then, no, a BUNCH of old, used mice nests uncovered in a very closed space in a barn. Both aroma and flavour were trembling with this unlovely facet. New wine, nice Gamay, small vigneron... too bad. What precise qualities the flaw had! It would be great to have a handbook of sensory attributes of flawed or damaged wines. I can't dredge up the creature or...
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