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Originally Posted by NCRadioMan
The smell of the wine is a part of what you taste, as is food. The tongue can only taste sweet, sour, salt and bitter. If you could not smell, you could not taste much.
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I agree with your statement. But you don't HAVE to snork/retrohale to get these "other" flavors was my point.
BTW, that tongue taste map has been proven wrong:
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/sourtaste.asp