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{"id":728,"date":"2009-04-19T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vinosseur.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2009-04-19T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T01:30:10","slug":"minerality-the-6th-taste-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/minerality-the-6th-taste-sensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Minerality – the 6th taste sensation?"},"content":{"rendered":"Up to now there have been 5 taste sensations clearly identified:<\/p>\n
Sweet (or fruitiness), is usually perceived towards the front of the tongue.\u00a0 Saltiness towards the center of the tongue.\u00a0 Sourness (or acidity), is perceived towards the sides of the tongue.\u00a0 Bitterness, which is sensed predominantly at the back of the tongue and throat. Umami or “savory”,\u00a0 is a relatively new taste descriptor which is what you might expect to find in soy sauce, certain mushrooms and dishes that are rich in flavor and don’t really fit into the four basic taste sensations of sweet, sour, salty and bitter.<\/p>\n
In my opinion, we are missing one more taste sensation, one that people in the wine world have been discussing, debating and arguing about for some years now. What I’m talking about of course is the topic, or the new taste sensation of\u00a0 “minerality”.\u00a0 Many of us wine nerds (no offense intended) have been describing certain wines as “minerally” for years now.<\/p>\n
We have been discussing it for years when describing certain white wines such as Riesling’s, Sauvignon Blanc’s, Chablis’, Etna’s Carricante’s, etc. We’ve even become comfortable describing certain red wines using the term “mineratlity”.\u00a0 Barolo’s, Burgundies and so on. We use this term in a positive manner when describing wines considered to be of high quality.\u00a0 Another thing to think about regarding minerality – we tend to find it in wines made of grapes grown on vines that grow on chalky or volcanic soil (which is full of sulfur).<\/p>\n
We have been debating it as well. What is “minerality”? Is it something that the grape has absorbed through the soil? Probably not, but many minerally wines are made from grapes grown on sulfurous volcanic soil. \u00a0 Can it be a characteristic of certain grapes?\u00a0 Perhaps.\u00a0 Or, is it merely the effect of volatile or reduced
\nsulfur compounds,\u00a0 more commonly referred to as reduction?\u00a0 Who knows??<\/p>\n
We have been arguing over it as well. Does “minerality” exist?\u00a0 Many people firmly argue that “yes” it does, and continue to describe a wine’s characteristics as “minerally”.\u00a0 In fact, it has been used to denote a positive attribute in a wine.\u00a0 Wine’s that are “minerally” are often sought out and considered to be well made.\u00a0 Some argue that it can help a wine age gracefully.\u00a0 Other people argue that “minerality” doesn’t exist and what we are describing is simply “reduction” or volatile sulfur compounds. Reduction, which may bode well for certain Rieslings, Sauvignon Blancs, and Burgundies is none the less,\u00a0 considered by many to be a fault.<\/p>\n
Whichever the case, it’s here for now and I feel that it can be described as a taste sensation.<\/p>\n
Since the sensation of “minerality” can’t be described as sweet, sour, salty, bitter nor umami, how should we describe it?\u00a0 The sensation of “minerality” isn’t perceived\u00a0 on any particular area of the\u00a0 tongue. It doesn’t show at the front, the sides or at the back. It isn’t a richness that we would find in Umami. In fact, the sensation\u00a0 of minerality seems to give the wine depth and concentration that the other taste sensations can’t accomplish on their own.\u00a0 It seems to fill up the entire mouth, and for this reason I can’t see how it fits into the other flavor sensations already defined.<\/p>\n
Whatever it is that creates this “minerality” in certain wines, we may not be sure of for some time.\u00a0 Many of us will continue to use the term when describing wines, and we will also be the same people to consider it a good quality.\u00a0 So for now, I will consider it the 6th taste sensation. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Up to now there have been 5 taste sensations clearly identified: Sweet Salty Sour Bitter Umami Sweet (or fruitiness), is usually perceived towards the front of the tongue.\u00a0 Saltiness towards the center of the tongue.\u00a0 Sourness (or acidity), is perceived towards the sides of the tongue.\u00a0 Bitterness, which is sensed predominantly at the back of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,10,46],"tags":[437,438,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinosseur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}