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Flavour Analysis

Bonito vinegar brings together pronounced smoky depths, rancio, toast and vinegar, all at once. A char note lends aromatic bitterness, with a sardine note adding pungent fishiness, and rice and kombu dashi notes give the profile a nuanced, persistent finish.

Dominant Flavour Families

Carnal / Animalic
Sharp
Maillard
Woody
Vegetal

Flavour profile of bonito vinegar

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Smoky

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Bonito vinegar

SmokyMaillard

bonito vinegar6.8

Rich, aromatic wood-smoke notes distinctive of deliberately smoked foods. Strong in bonito vinegar.

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