Wine Sensory
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Wine Sensory Services
FlavorActiV is committed to promoting good sensory practices across the whole beverage industry. A team of expert taster trainers, supported by consultant beverage experts, are combining their years of insider experience with advanced human calibration tools, tailored sensory programmes and instruments to give unparalleled sensory support.
FlavorActiV have a history of working alongside the industry’s leading organisations, establishing and maintaining good sensory practices globally. Moving forward, FlavorActiV continues to build on its goal of establishing an industry-wide global wine flavour language, supported initally by FlavorActiV’s GMP flavour standards to train tasters to recognise defects and positives in Wine, and progressing to measure and maintain tasters skills and education level through advanced proprietary calibration tools and software.
If you have any questions about wine sensory management, please contact wine@flavoractiv.com.
FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Reference Standards
FlavorActiV’s pharmaceutical grade, GMP Flavour Standards are safe to smell, taste and drink, and can be used in almost any liquid to impart a real flavour, off-note, or taint. The spirit flavour standards were developed in FlavorActiV's dedicated pharmaceutical facility in the UK are sold individually in packs of 5 capsules, each capsule separately blister packed to provide flavour protection and prolonged shelf life. Production adheres to strict Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) pharmaceutical quality controls. FlavorActiV's dedicated GMP Flavour Centre is certified and regulated by the UK Government’s Medicine Regulatory & Healthcare Product Agency (MHRA) to a standard which far exceed ISO 9001, ISO 17025 or any food grade certification.
Each of the 34 flavours below has undergone evaluation by FlavorActiV's Sensory Systems team as well as the Wine industry directly prior to inclusion within FlavorActiV's latest Wine Flavour Lexicon and Library as important wine flavour reference standards.
| Acetaldehyde Bruised Apple, Sherry Acetaldehyde | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Vinegar Sour Acetic | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Astringent Dry, Puckery Saponin | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Barnyard Band Aid, Medicinal, Horses 4-Ethyl Phenol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Ink Electric Fire, Inky, Chemical 2-Bromophenol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Butyric Baby Vomit, Rancid, Cheese, Parmesan Butyric Acid | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Catty Blackcurrant, Tom Cat Urine P-Menthane-8-Thiol-3-One | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Antiseptic / Chemical Disinfectant, Mouthwash 2, 6-Dichlorophenol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Buttery Buttery, Butterscotch, Creamy, Toffee Butane-2,3-dione | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Earthy Wet Earth, Damp Soil 2-Ethyl Fenchol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Nail Varnish Solvent Ethyl Acetate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Tropical Fruits Pineapple Ethyl Butyrate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Red Apple Aniseed, Estery Ethyl Hexanoate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Floral Rose Hips, Rose Water Geraniol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Freshly Cut Grass Leafy, Hedge Trimmings Cis-3-Hexanoate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Rotten Eggs Sulphury, Rotten Hydrogen Sulphide | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Pigs Farmyard Indole | Buy Now ❱ |
| Bananas Fruity Isoamyl Acetate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Isovaleric Sweaty Isovaleric Acid | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Lightstruck Skunk, Sunstruck 3-Methyl-2-Butene-1-Thiol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Methanethiol Rotten Vegetables, Butane Gas Methyl Mercaptan | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Drains Rotten Drains Ethanethiol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Metallic Metal, Iron Rust, Blook-like Ferrous Sulphate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Mousy Caged Mice, Cracker Biscuits 2-Acetyletrahydropyridine | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Cork / Musty Damp Cellar, Cork Taint 2,4,6 Trichloroanisole | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Plastic Polystyrene, Melting Plastic 4-Vinyl Guaiacol | Product Details ❱ Buy Now ❱ |
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| Phenolic Herbal 4-Vinyl Guiacol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Rotten Vegetables Boiled Cabbage Dimethyl Disulphide (DMDS) | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Smoky Smoked Meat, Kippers Guiacol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Spicy All Spice, Clove Oil Eugenol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Sulphitic Struck Match, Choking Sulphur Dioxide | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Sweetcorn Creamed Corn, Tomato Sauce Dimethyl Sulphide (DMS) | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Bell Pepper Earthy 2-Isobutyl-3-Methoxypryazine | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Dry Earty Beetroot, Earthy, Peaty Geosmin | Buy Now ❱ |
Wine Sensory Plan
1 › Train
Train using FlavorActiV's GMP Wine Flavour Standards & Kits. Our multi-lingual team provide training in over 15 languages.
2 › Calibrate
Receive regular wine proficiency kits to test your abilities. Input data into our proprietary software to benchmark your results globally.
3 › Maintain
FlavorActiV advanced training sessions and industry specific workshops will see your sensory knowledge continually grow across the range of flavour reference standards.
4 › Improve
Continual optimisation and analysis of support and package coupled with supply of GMP Flavour Standards.
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