Faded aroma and "dead" flavor caused by excessive age and the subsequent lack of quality.

Coffee that is flat with a cardboard taste due to being exposed to oxygen for too long.

The flavor of coffee from roasted beans that have been stored for too long.

Coffee that has been exposed to oxygen for too long. It becomes flat and has a cardboard taste.

Describes coffee that was roasted from beans that were stored too long.

(Espresso) An unpleasant taste caused by oxygen and moisture penetrating the beans.

Due to excessive age, aromas fade and a characteristic dead, papery taste comes to the fore.

The oxidation of volatile coffee aromas and flavors that give coffee an undesirable flavor. Usually caused by leaving coffee exposed to air and moisture.

Coffee exposed to oxygen for extended periods of time loses acidity and becomes flat and cardboard-tasting. This is the taste of stale.

Roasted coffee that has faded in quality after excessive exposure to air.

To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.

That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.

Descriptor for wines that have lost their fresh, youthful qualities; opposite of fresh.

A tea that has lost most of its quality through excessive age. Stale teas have faded aromas and a characteristic dead, papery taste.

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wine which has lost its bouquet : insipid and flat due to oxidation (contact with air)

Wines that have lost their fresh, youthful qualities are called stale. Opposite of fresh.

Dull, heavy wines that are oxidized or lack balancing acidity for freshness are called stale.

This describes a wine that has lost its fresh, youthful qualities.

A response is stale if its age has passed its freshness lifetime.

Old, over the hill wines which have lost their freshness without developing the positive aspects of successful aging.

Wine with lifeless, stagnant qualities. Usually found in wines that were kept in large vessel storage for an excessive length of time (see also tanky).

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