Coffee flavour wheel Fruity Sour / Fermented Green / Vegetative Other Roasted Spices Nutty / Cocoa Sweet Floral Berry Dried fruit Other fruit Citrus fruit Sour Olive oil Raw Green / Vegetative Beany Papery / Musty Chemical Pipe tobacco Tobacco Burnt Cereal Pungent Pepper Brown spice Nutty Cocoa Brown sugar Vanilla Vanillin Overall sweet Sweet aromatics Black tea Floral Blackberry Raspberry Blueberry Strawberry Raisin Prune Coconut Cherry Pomegranate Pineapple Grape Apple Peach Pear Grapefruit Orange Lemon Lime Sour aromatics Acetic acid Butyric acid Isovaleric acid Citric acid Malic acid Winey Whiskey Fermented Overripe Under-ripe Peapod Fresh Dark green Vegetative Hay-like Herb-like Stale Cardboard Papery Woody Moldy / Damp Musty / Dusty Musty / Earthy Animalic Meaty / Brothy Phenolic Bitter Salty Medicinal Petroleum Skunky Rubber Acrid Ashy Smoky Brown roast Grain Malt Anise Nutmeg Cinnamon Clove Peanuts Hazelnut Almond Chocolate Dark chocolate Molasses Maple syrup Caramelised Honey Chamomile Rose Jasmine Point at a flavour Click a family to open it No flavour selected
Flavour families Berry: Blackberry, Raspberry, Blueberry, Strawberry Dried fruit: Raisin, Prune Other fruit: Coconut, Cherry, Pomegranate, Pineapple, Grape, Apple, Peach, Pear Citrus fruit: Grapefruit, Orange, Lemon, Lime Sour: Sour aromatics, Acetic acid, Butyric acid, Isovaleric acid, Citric acid, Malic acid Alcohol / Fermented: Winey, Whiskey, Fermented, Overripe Olive oil Raw Green / Vegetative: Under-ripe, Peapod, Fresh, Dark green, Vegetative, Hay-like, Herb-like Beany Papery / Musty: Stale, Cardboard, Papery, Woody, Moldy / Damp, Musty / Dusty, Musty / Earthy, Animalic, Meaty / Brothy, Phenolic Chemical: Bitter, Salty, Medicinal, Petroleum, Skunky, Rubber Pipe tobacco Tobacco Burnt: Acrid, Ashy, Smoky, Brown roast Cereal: Grain, Malt Pungent Pepper Brown spice: Anise, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Clove Nutty: Peanuts, Hazelnut, Almond Cocoa: Chocolate, Dark chocolate Brown sugar: Molasses, Maple syrup, Caramelised, Honey Vanilla Vanillin Overall sweet Sweet aromatics Black tea Floral: Chamomile, Rose, Jasmine Vocabulary after the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, Specialty Coffee Association and World Coffee Research (2016). Drawing, palette and interaction are my own.