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Here we want to give you some information about vinegar types and knowledge about vinegar. This lexicon is not exhaustive.
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The tasting of vinegar
| Apple | | | desired | apple, rubbed apple, green apple, grassy, bright | | undesired | pear, airless grassy, aldehyde, brown, foul yeast
| remarks
| Nearly the same tasting of all varieties
| | Pear | | | desired | intensive pear, typical flavour, soft grassy, goldyellow | | undesired | oily, oxidated, ranty, airless
| remarks
| some varieties have less flavour
| | Quince | | | desired | intensive quince, lemon, fresh, less tannins
| | undesired | brown, aldhyde, airless, bitter, no fruit
| | remarks | intensive vinegar with a typical flavour
| Prunes
| | | desired | typical prune, less bitter almond, less stone
| | undesired | too much bitter almond, only stone, foul
| | remarks | smaller varieties bring more flavour
| | Cherry | | | desired | fresh cherry, less stone, chocolate flavour
| | undesired | aldehyde, too much stone, bitter, brown colour
| | remarks | a typical and intensive variety
| Wine vinegar
| | | desired | typical taste of variety, typical colour, fruit tasteable
| | undesired | brown or dark colour, yeast tasteable,
| | remarks | most time muscat flavours are more intensive
| | Apricot | | | desired | less bitter almond, fresh flavour, golden colour
| | undesired | grassy, intensive bitter almond, brown colour
| | remarks | some vinegars are very intensive
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Peach
| | | desired | gently peach, less bitter almond, light grassy
| | undesired | soapy taste, brown, untypical taste,
| | remarks | less intensive fruit
| Black currant
| | | desired | Cassis, grassy, intensive fruit, red-blue colour
| | undesired | airless, bitter, too much tannins, brown colour, thinner tasteable
| | remarks | typical vinegar with intensive flavour
| Herb vinegars
| | | desired | typical herb flavour, not too salty, harmonic
| | undesired | grassy, salty, hay, no herbs tasteable
| | remarks | this vinegars must be harmonic
| Vegetable
| | | desired | vegetable must be tasteable, intensive, fresh
| | undesired | aldehyde, bitter, brown, no typical colour, foul yeast
| | remarks | Vegetable vinegars are very intensive
| Spiced vinegars
| | | desired | intensive, typical spice taste, aromatic, harmonic
| | undesired | disharmonic, aldehyde, no typical taste, more vinegar than spice flavour
| | remarks | Spiced vinegars have to be intensive
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