If a wine tastes like grapefruit, strawberry, or cherry, does it mean that fruit is in the wine?

Generally, no. Though some winemakers use fruit other than grapes, most of the fruity notes you can taste in wines are from phenols. Phenols are chemical compounds that affect the way you taste a wine. They come from the grape, the soil, the type of barrel used, the yeast, the aging process, and a hundred other tiny factors. At Platinum Bench, we make our wine only from grapes.

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