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The taste of good wine resembles urine koalas
HmDovodilos Do you ever describe the taste of your wine drinking as a "fruity, sweet, with a hint of coconut?" If so, you are to be congratulated. Because your description in full are present all the components of urine koalas.
In 1996, scientists were able to isolate an important component of wine. They described it as "intensely sweet, with a smell like coconut" and called it "a wine lactone».
With the lactone part of it was correct. Lactones - a special kind of odorant molecules, also known as esters, and isolated components of the chemical composition was indeed similar to ether. But there was a "wine" part, about which scientists have made a mistake.
Yes, it was a mistake, even given the fact that the same two years later lactone was isolated in Riesling, sweet and aromatic wines. They were wrong, even when the wine lactone found in many other foods that people associate with the aroma of a good wine. These products include citrus fruits, apples and grapes.
They were wrong, because all the wine lactone was described in 1975. Someone Southwell found that if you feed a koala eucalyptus leaves, and then wait for it to help, including materials, which is to help the animal be and wine lactone. It is he who forms the smell and taste of urine koalas. And yet we do not call a substance present in Riesling and other fruit wines "lactone urine koalas." It's not fair!
But seriously, the wine lactone - is a particular isomer. In isomers molecular same chemical formula, in which the same number of carbon atoms, hydrogen, and so on, but have chemical structures totally different isomers. Isomer wine already open. But isomer urine koalas still remains a mystery.
via io9.com/good-wine-tastes-more-like-koala-urine-than-youd-think-1706588545
In 1996, scientists were able to isolate an important component of wine. They described it as "intensely sweet, with a smell like coconut" and called it "a wine lactone».
With the lactone part of it was correct. Lactones - a special kind of odorant molecules, also known as esters, and isolated components of the chemical composition was indeed similar to ether. But there was a "wine" part, about which scientists have made a mistake.
Yes, it was a mistake, even given the fact that the same two years later lactone was isolated in Riesling, sweet and aromatic wines. They were wrong, even when the wine lactone found in many other foods that people associate with the aroma of a good wine. These products include citrus fruits, apples and grapes.
They were wrong, because all the wine lactone was described in 1975. Someone Southwell found that if you feed a koala eucalyptus leaves, and then wait for it to help, including materials, which is to help the animal be and wine lactone. It is he who forms the smell and taste of urine koalas. And yet we do not call a substance present in Riesling and other fruit wines "lactone urine koalas." It's not fair!
But seriously, the wine lactone - is a particular isomer. In isomers molecular same chemical formula, in which the same number of carbon atoms, hydrogen, and so on, but have chemical structures totally different isomers. Isomer wine already open. But isomer urine koalas still remains a mystery.
via io9.com/good-wine-tastes-more-like-koala-urine-than-youd-think-1706588545
