Wine Tasting Aromas

Last week two co-worker friends and I started a wine tasting class, Initiation à la Dégustation, through the Amicale des Sommeliers de Québec. The course is in French, which means that I've been trying to reconcile English and French wine terminology in my head and occasionally lean over to whisper something like, "What's moelleux in English?" (It turns out that there isn't really a single word translation.)

As we tasted the wines, we consulted a sheet full of different wine aroma descriptors. I doubt that I would think of many of these things without the sheet in front of me... Rubber? Kerosene? Cat piss?!

This got me thinking about a poster I'd seen in one of the wineries in Mendoza. It featured all the most common wine aroma descriptors with a picture of each one inside an empty wine glass. A little creative googling, and here it is.

Now if only I had room for a framed version of that on the kitchen wall beside my (very modest) wine collection and the two beautiful decanters I got from my lovely girlfriends for Christmas.