🌸 Wine Flavours

Explore 338 flavor profiles found in wine

Brown Spice

Warm baking spice notes like cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, or allspice.

Mace

Nutmeg

Allspice

Cinnamon

Clove

Baking Spices

Chinese 5-Spice

Anise

Licorice

Citrus

Bright, zesty notes like lemon, lime, grapefruit, or orange peel.

Lime

Lime Zest

Yuzu

Lemon

Lemon Zest

Citrus Zest

Meyer Lemon

Grapefruit

Pink Grapefruit

Citrus Pith

Orange

Tangerine

Mandarin Orange

Orange Zest

Blood Orange

Marmalade

Cork Taint

Musty, wet-cardboard note from a tainted cork that mutes fruit and freshness.

Wet Cardboard

Fruity

Fruit-driven aromas and flavors, from citrus and stone fruit to berries and tropical notes, found across all wine styles.

No specific flavors added yet

Herbs

Green, leafy, fresh and floral herbal flavors

Dill

Tarragon

Lemongrass

Lemon Verbana

Marjoram

Chervil

Basil

Mint

Shiso

Nutty

Toasted nut notes like almond, hazelnut, or walnut, often from age or oxidation.

Raw Almond

Almond

Pine Nut

Hazelnut

Brazil Nut

Walnut

Pungent

Intense, sharp aromas like vinegar, balsamic, or sharp fermented notes.

No specific flavors added yet

Soil

Earthy notes like potting soil, clay, or beetroot that emphasize ground and place over fruit.

Potting Soil

Forest Floor

Red Beet

Clay Pot

Dusty

Tea

Leafy, tannic notes recalling black tea, herbal infusions, or dried tea leaves.

Black Tea

Rooibos Tea

Botrytis

Honeyed, saffron, and dried-fruit notes from noble rot in sweet wines.

Ginger

Saffron

Caramelized

Cooked-sugar notes like caramel, toffee, brown sugar, or brûléed crust.

Honey

Caramel

Toffee

Brown Sugar

Burnt Caramel

Cola

Cocoa

Chocolate, cocoa powder, or mocha notes that feel dessert-like and rich.

White Chocolate

Chocolate

Dark Chocolate

Cocoa Powder

Carob

Espresso

Fresh Green

Crisp green-vegetal notes like celery, cucumber, pea shoot, or gooseberry.

No specific flavors added yet

Mineral

Stony, chalky, or saline notes suggesting rocks, wet stone, or sea air rather than fruit.

Sea Shell

Wet Chalk

Slate

Crushed Gravel

Volcanic Rocks

Schist

Graphite

Pencil Lead

Petrichor

Sour / Fermented

Tangy, yogurt-, sourdough-, or beer-like notes from fermentation.

Lager

Sour Cream

Butter

Buttermilk

Parmesan

Yogurt

Curd

Sourdough

Cream

Sweet

Sweet-smelling notes like honey, caramel, vanilla, and confectionary tones that add richness and dessert-like appeal.

Vanilla

Coconut

Pastry

Beeswax

Marzipan

Bubblegum

Tobacco

Leafy, cigar-box or pipe tobacco notes that feel woody and mature.

Cigar Box

Tobacco Leaf

Sweet Tobacco

Tree Fruit / Melon

Orchard and melon notes like apple, pear, peach, or cantaloupe.

Quince

Green Apple

Yellow Apple

Red Apple Skin

Cooked Apple

Asian Pear

Pear

Honeydew Melon

Yellow Plum

Cantaloupe

Watermelon

White Peach

Peach

Nectarine

Apricot

Persimmon

Brettanomyces

Funky, wild aromas like leather, barnyard, or Band-Aid that add rustic complexity when subtle.

Band-Aid

Black Cardamom

Sweaty Saddle

Barnyard

Horse Manure

Burnt

Charred, smoky notes like toast, ash, grilled wood, or campfire.

Smoke

Burnt Cedar

Ash

Chemical

Sharp industrial tones like petrol, plastic, or tar that can be distinctive or challenging.

New Plastic

Petrol

Medicinal

Antiseptic

Oily

Tar

Diesel

Methoxypyrazines

Distinct green notes like bell pepper, tomato leaf, or jalapeño.

Tomato Leaf

Green Peppercorn

Bell Pepper

Menthol

Gooseberry

Jalapeño

Pepper

Spicy, peppercorn notes such as black, white, chili, or pink pepper.

White Pepper

Pink Peppercorn

Chili Flake

Black Pepper

Spice

Warm or pungent spice notes like pepper, clove, cinnamon, and baking spice that give wines extra lift and complexity.

No specific flavors added yet

Tropical Fruit

Tropics fruit notes such as pineapple, mango, passionfruit, or lychee.

Starfruit

Passionfruit

Kiwi

Pineapple

Lychee

Mango

White Guava

Pink Guava

Dragon Fruit

Jackfruit

Banana

Grassy

Cut grass and hay tones that add freshness and a green edge.

Grass

Hay

Nutty / Cocoa

Nutty, chocolaty, or coffee-like tones that suggest oxidation, age, or enriched, dessert-like character.

No specific flavors added yet

Red Fruit

Lively red berry and cherry notes such as strawberry, raspberry, or red currant.

Prickly Pear

Sour Cherry

White Cherry

Cranberry

Red Currant

Pomegranate

Red Plum

Cherry

Wild Strawberry

Strawberry

White Raspberry

Raspberry

Fruit Punch

Sulfur Compounds

Struck match, rubber, onion, or garlic notes from sulfur-related chemistry.

Flint

Green Onion

Onion

Garlic

Boiled Eggs

Cat Pee

Sweaty

Struck Match

Black Fruit

Dark berry and plum notes such as blackberry, blackcurrant, or black cherry.

Boysenberry

Black Currant

Cassis

Black Cherry

Black Plum

Plum

Blueberry

Blackberry

Berry Bramble

Black Olive

Resinous Herbs

Piney, woody herb notes like rosemary, thyme, sage, or eucalyptus.

Thyme

Oregano

Rosemary

Pine Needle

Sage

Eucalyptus

Toasty

Smoky, toasted, or charred notes reminiscent of grilled bread, roasted nuts, or campfire from oak influence.

Toasted Bread

Grilled

Umami

Savory depth like soy sauce, mushroom, cured meat, or truffle.

Mushroom

Truffle

Leather

Pastrami

Roasted Meat

Bacon Fat

Soy Sauce

Dried Fruit

Concentrated, raisined fruit notes like fig, date, prune, or dried berry.

Dried Apricot

Golden Raisin

Raisin

Fig

Dried Cherry

Dried Cranberry

Fruit Leather

Prune

Hoisin

Fruitcake

Dried Olive

Other

Distinctive flavors that don’t fit classic families, from savory umami notes to unusual, wine-specific nuances.

No specific flavors added yet

Earthy

Soil-driven notes like wet earth, mushroom, forest floor, or mineral tones that emphasize place over fruit.

No specific flavors added yet

Herbaceous

Green, leafy, or herbal notes like bell pepper, mint, thyme, or grass that add freshness or edge.

No specific flavors added yet

Floral

Perfumed flower notes such as rose, violet, orange blossom, or jasmine that add lift and aromatic elegance.

All Flavors A-Z

Acacia Flower Band-Aid Black Tea Boysenberry 🏷️Brown Spice Celery Cigar Box 🏷️Citrus 🏷️Cork Taint Dill Dried Apricot Flint 🏷️Fruity Ginger 🏷️Herbs Honey Lager Lime Mace Mushroom New Plastic 🏷️Nutty Potting Soil Prickly Pear 🏷️Pungent Quince Raw Almond Sea Shell Smoke 🏷️Soil Starfruit 🏷️Tea Thyme Toasted Bread Tomato Leaf Vanilla Wet Cardboard White Chocolate White Pepper Almond Bergamot Black Cardamom Black Currant 🏷️Botrytis Burnt Cedar Caramel 🏷️Caramelized Chocolate 🏷️Cocoa Coconut Fennel Forest Floor 🏷️Fresh Green Golden Raisin Green Apple Green Onion Green Peppercorn Grilled Lime Zest 🏷️Mineral Nutmeg Oregano Passionfruit Petrol Pink Peppercorn Rooibos Tea Saffron 🏷️Sour / Fermented Sour Cherry Sour Cream 🏷️Sweet Tarragon 🏷️Tobacco Tobacco Leaf 🏷️Tree Fruit / Melon Truffle Wet Chalk Allspice Ash Bell Pepper 🏷️Brettanomyces 🏷️Burnt Butter Cassis Chamomile 🏷️Chemical Chili Flake Dark Chocolate Kiwi Leather Lemongrass Medicinal 🏷️Methoxypyrazines Onion Pastry Pea Shoot 🏷️Pepper Pine Nut Raisin Red Beet Rosemary Slate 🏷️Spice Sweaty Saddle Sweet Tobacco Toffee 🏷️Tropical Fruit White Cherry Yellow Apple Yuzu Antiseptic Barnyard Beeswax Black Cherry Black Pepper Brown Sugar Buttermilk Cinnamon Clay Pot Cocoa Powder Cranberry Crushed Gravel Daffodil Endive Fig Garlic 🏷️Grassy Hazelnut Lemon Lemon Verbana Menthol 🏷️Nutty / Cocoa Pastrami Pine Needle Pineapple Red Apple Skin 🏷️Red Fruit 🏷️Sulfur Compounds 🏷️Black Fruit Black Plum Boiled Eggs Brazil Nut Burnt Caramel Carob Clove Cooked Apple Cucumber Dried Cherry Dusty Elderflower Gooseberry Horse Manure Lemon Zest Lychee Marjoram Marzipan Oily Parmesan Red Currant 🏷️Resinous Herbs Roasted Meat Sage 🏷️Toasty 🏷️Umami Volcanic Rocks Asian Pear Asparagus Bacon Fat Baking Spices Bubblegum Cat Pee Chervil Citrus Zest Cola Dried Cranberry 🏷️Dried Fruit Espresso Eucalyptus Geranium Jalapeño Mango 🏷️Other Plum Pomegranate Schist Tar Walnut Yogurt Basil Blueberry Chinese 5-Spice Curd Diesel 🏷️Earthy Fruit Leather Graphite Hibiscus Meyer Lemon Pear Red Plum Soy Sauce Sweaty White Guava Anise Blackberry Cherry Grapefruit 🏷️Herbaceous Honeydew Melon Honeysuckle Mint Pencil Lead Pink Guava Prune Sourdough Struck Match Berry Bramble Cream Dragon Fruit 🏷️Floral Hoisin Iris Licorice Petrichor Pink Grapefruit Shiso Wild Strawberry Yellow Plum Black Olive Cantaloupe Citrus Pith Fruitcake Grass Jackfruit Jasmine Strawberry Banana Dried Olive Hay Lavender Orange Watermelon White Raspberry Lilac Raspberry Tangerine White Peach Fruit Punch Lily Mandarin Orange Peach Nectarine Orange Blossom Orange Zest Apricot Blood Orange Peony Marmalade Persimmon Potpourri Rhubarb Rose Rose Petal Violet Acacia Apple Apple Blossom Baked Apple Bay Leaf Bell Pepper Blackberry Bramble Brioche Candied Strawberry Cantalope Cardamom Cedar Chili Pepper Citrus Blossom Coffee Cumin Cured Meat Dried Flowers Dried Herbs Dried Strawberry Dried Thyme Fennel Fig Paste Figs Fresh Herbs Gala Apple Game Gooseberry Grape Green Almond Green Peppercorn Green Plum Grilled Plum Honeydew Lemon Curd Lime Blossom Lime Peel Melon Menthol Mesquite Milk Chocolate Minerals Musk Orange Peel Oregano Paprika Passion Fruit Peach Skin Pepperocini Petroleum Pine Plum Sauce Red Apple Red Cherry Resin Ripe Banana Roasted Tomato Rubber Cement Sage Saline Seashell Spiced Plum Stewed Strawberry Sugarplum Sweet Balsamic Tart Cherry TartCherry Thyme Toast Unripe Peach White Flower White Flowers Wild Flowers Yellow Peach