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primary aromas refer to flavors coming from grape juice, almost all the non-ferment flavors one finds in young wine: fresh fruit, spiced qualities, herbal tones, floral feels, citrus character, and earth notes.

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Granite

Andrew Yandell By Andrew Yandell

Hard, granular, igneous rock predominantly composed of quartz, mica, and feldspar, that once decomposed, becomes generally acidic and infertile soil. Wines grown in granitic sands are often...

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Slate

Andrew Yandell By Andrew Yandell

Bluish, greenish, grayish, or brownish hard metamorphic rock that breaks into long fragments easily. Slate is hardly soil, or rather crackable rock through which grapevines...

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