How Do You Smell 200 Things at Once? Drink Wine

C-Ville Weekly | September 30, 2009
The average human detects 2,000 smells, and experts estimate that there are 200 smells in wine. Compare that to only four tastes, and you can see that wine-tasting should really be called wine-smelling. So why do we rely so much on taste?

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