Flavors

Flavors are additional properties of a wine which are added during winemaking. Flavors can affect the final rating of a wine and can give an additional bonus or malus.

Some flavors can be added or avoided intentionally (for example during fermentation with specific yeasts) while other may appear randomly and only be discovered during tasting.

Flavors from yeast
These flavors may be added while processing the must in the winery. During fermentation, yeast can carry over its flavors to the final wine. This can either be yeast from the vineyard or one produced in the laboratory. Longer fermentation requires higher alcohol tolerance of the yeast, but increases the chance of the flavor to appear.


 * Anis
 * Black Berry
 * Black Pepper
 * Cherry
 * Dried Herbs
 * Lavender
 * Plum
 * Mussel
 * Yellow Apple

Random flavors
Following positive flavors may appear randomly, at least there's no known method to intentionally add them during winemaking:


 * Butter
 * Leather
 * Vanilla

Cork Taint
Cork flavor may appear if a regular cork is selected during bottling.

Mercaptan
Mercaptan can appear for following reasons:


 * Using dirty equipment
 * no pump-over during fermentation

Oxidation
Oxidation can appear if the wine is exposed to air. In the game, this can happen in following situations:


 * Wine stored too long in cellar before bottling
 * May appear randomly if the wine is casked

Unsuitable Terroir
This flavor appears if the grapes of the wine were grown on a vineyard with unfitting properties for that sort of grape.