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Plum Wine

Plum Wine is an alcoholic beverage with 131 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is whiskey lactone. It pairs most strongly with berry, sharing 36 flavor compounds. Plum Wine appears in 5 recipes.

Japanese liqueur made from steeping ume fruits in alcohol and sugar
Plum Wine — ingredient reference image
131
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

131 compounds

How Plum Wine's 131 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

fruity 48 · 36.6%
floral 19 · 14.5%
sour 15 · 11.5%
dairy 9 · 6.9%
green 8 · 6.1%
spicy 5 · 3.8%
sulfurous 3 · 2.3%
caramel 3 · 2.3%
woody 2 · 1.5%
roasted 2 · 1.5%

Flavor Compounds

59 of 131 are distinctive to plum wine — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in plum wine — concentration against odour threshold where both are published, then by how distinctive the molecule is across the graph. Molecules measured here but not established as odorants sit below those that are.

Molecules volatile enough to reach the nose.

Best Pairings for Plum Wine

Ranked by how often cooks actually use them together, across 453,403 recipes — the familiar answer first. Each pairing still carries its molecular score and shared-compound count; only the ORDER differs. Counts cover every characterised molecule the two ingredients have in common, not only the aroma-active ones, so they can exceed an ingredient’s aroma-compound count. For the chemistry-first view — where the surprising pairings live — see the molecular network below, the side-by-side comparison, or the Pairing Tool.

Molecular Neighborhood

Plum Wine and its 10 closest compound-sharing relatives. Spoke thickness = shared compounds; circle size = that ingredient's own compound count. Drag to rearrange, scroll to zoom, click to open.

Molecular neighborhood diagram of plum wine — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds

Recipes with Plum Wine

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Research basis

Plum Wine is supported by 270 peer-reviewed papers

Drawn from PubMed + Europe PMC + food-science journals. Click any title to read the full abstract on the original source.