The wonderful smell of freshly made, buttered toast that is captured in French Champagne, and hasn't really been duplicated in sparkling wines produced elsewhere. Older Champagnes take on a scent of burnt toast or even nuttiness, a style much in vogue in Great Britain.
aroma or flavor derived from barrel aging.
Refers to an aroma and flavor that originates from the oak barrels in which wines are aged and also a character that is present in some sparkling wines.
Aromas and flavours imparted by the barrels can smell and taste of grilled toast or otherwise referred to as “toffee” or “vanilla”.
refers to the fragrance of toasted bread that is common to wine that has been barrel aged in relatively new toasted (bent around a fire) barrels, or a sparkling wine with yeasty character.
Not a charred or burnt sensation, but rather reminiscent of fresh toast.
A coffee with an appealing taste and scent that may bring to mind toast.
A wine tasting description often referring to Chardonnay and Champagne. This is a flavor similar to toasted bread. In Champagne, it is mostly due to the autolysis of the second fermentation. In other wines, it is often due to barrel aging.
A smell of grilled toast can often be found in wines because the barrels the wines are aged in are charred or toasted on the inside.
The barrel smell and taste imparted to oak-fermented white wines and barrel-aged white burgundy
This is a smell and taste that is imparted by contact with oak to certain wines.
Often used to describe a white wine with a nice hint of the wooden barrel in which the wine was stored. Sweeter wines are rarely described this way.
Describe a hint of the wooden barrel. Usually associated with dry white wines
A tasting term. Toasty means literally means just that - smelling or tasting of toast. It may reflect 'toasting' of the barrels, when they may be placed around a fire (sometimes as they are made), the flames altering the physical and chemical composition of the surface of the wood, and subsequently this will have a significant effect on the flavour of the wine.
A flavor imparted by oak barrels and sometimes descriptive of sparkling wines as well.
Wines showing a pleasant biscuity flavour imparted by the barrel.
Smell akin to fresh toast - particularly barrel-aged Chardonnay, mature Champagne.
Many wines are aged, fermented or both in small oak barrels. There may be a slight char or "toast" left on the inside surface of the barrel. Other tasting descriptors that charred oak might inspire are smoky, vanilla, toffee and caramel. The impression of sweet spices such as cinnamon or clove is similarly limited to wood aging.
Describes a flavor derived from the oak barrels in which wines are aged. Also, a character that sometimes develops in sparkling wines.
Other, similar descriptors are "caramel" and "toffee". Some also add spicy flavours, such as "cinnamon" or "cloves" (see also oaky, smoke/smoky, vanillin).
When barrel-fermented and aged wines show a pleasant biscuity, charry character.