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Oloroso sherry

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Every one of its 15 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.

• acetaldehydearomaaldehydereads as pungent, fruity odor (PubChem)Measured in 18 of 338 ingredients.cite

  155.7 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera — roughly a third of the 487.0 mg/L reported for a Fino Solera aged under flor in the companion study — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 6a (Acetaldehyde, acetaldehyde-diethylacetal, methanol and higher alcohols in mg/L ...), Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'Acetaldehyde')
• 1-propanolaromaalcoholreads as burning taste (PubChem)Measured in 22 of 338 ingredients.cite

  61.0 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 6a, Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'n-Propanol')
• vanillinaromaphenolreads as sweetish smell (PubChem)Measured in 12 of 338 ingredients.cite

  3.80 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera, rising from 0.28 mg/L in the young fortified wine — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 8b, Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'Vanillin')
• phenylethyl alcoholaromaalcoholreads as sharp burning taste (PubChem)Measured in 41 of 338 ingredients.cite

  27.7 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 6b, Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column '2-Phenylethanol')
• isobutanolaromaalcoholreads as sweet, musty odor (PubChem)Measured in 24 of 338 ingredients.cite

  77.3 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 6a, Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'Isobutanol')
• ethyl lactatearomaalcoholreads as buttery odor (PubChem)Measured in 9 of 338 ingredients.cite

  203.65 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera, a twelvefold rise from 17.07 mg/L in the young fortified wine — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 7a, Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'Ethyl Lactate')
• furfuralaromafuranreads as almond-like odor (PubChem)Measured in 33 of 338 ingredients.cite

  26.32 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera — against 0.16 mg/L in a Fino Solera in the companion study — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 8c, Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'Furfural')
• 1,1-diethoxyethanearomaetherreads as whiskey taste (PubChem)Measured in 8 of 338 ingredients.cite

  29.3 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera, from 7.0 mg/L in the young fortified wine — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 6a, Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'Diethyl-Acetal'; the table caption names the analyte acetaldehyde-diethylacetal)
• syringaldehydearomaphenolMeasured in 6 of 338 ingredients.cite

  9.82 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera, rising from 0.62 mg/L in the young fortified wine — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 8b (Concentration of phenolic compounds (mg/L) ...), Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'Syringaldehyde')
• 2-methyl-1-butanolaromaalcoholMeasured in 15 of 338 ingredients.cite

  60.3 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 6b, Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column '2-Methyl-1-Butanol')
• ethyl acetatearomaesterreads as fragrant odor (PubChem)Measured in 42 of 338 ingredients.cite

  323.7 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera, up from 45.7 mg/L in the young fortified wine — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 7a (Ethyl acetate, ethyl esters of organic acids and ethyl esters of fatty acids in mg/L in the Oloroso and Palo Cortado Sherry wines studied), Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'Ethyl Acetate')
• diethyl succinatearomaesterMeasured in 8 of 338 ingredients.cite

  89.67 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera, from 0.93 mg/L in the young fortified wine — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 7a, Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column 'Diethyl Succinate')
• isoamyl alcoholaromaalcoholMeasured in 43 of 338 ingredients.cite

  220.3 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera — the largest higher alcohol — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 6b (Higher alcohols, in mg/L, in the Oloroso and Palo Cortado Sherry wines studied), Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column '3-Methyl-1-Butanol')
• 5-hydroxymethylfurfuralaromaalcoholreads as butter, caramel, musty (PubChem)Measured in 11 of 338 ingredients.cite

  119.56 mg/L in the Oloroso Solera — against 0.97 mg/L in a Fino Solera in the companion study; the clearest single marker of oxidative rather than biological aging — Valcárcel-Muñoz et al. 2022, Foods (Table 8c (Concentration of phenolic compounds (mg/L) ...), Oloroso block, row 'Solera', column '5-Hydroxymethylfurfural')