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The wine aroma wheel was developed in the 1980s under the guidance of Professor Ann Noble of the University of California, Davis, and is modeled after similar tools used by the beer and scotch whiskey industries. Although it was designed to enhance the accuracy of communication about wine aromas among members of the wine industry, it quickly became popular with a much broader group of wine enthusiasts. Members of the wine industry worked with Professor Noble to create a catalog of commonly used odor terms, which were then organized into groups by origin and/or similarity of smell and displayed in the circular format above. The wine aroma wheel is a superb learning tool because it shows common aroma terms in relation to one another.
How do those different aromas get in the wine?
It is theorized that the grapevine developed aroma compounds as an evolutionary advancement to attract insects and animals to assist in pollination and dispersion of seeds...
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