If you know, how did a floral term like "bouquet" get associated with tertiary aroma in the first place? It's a weird disjunction: the language of the most ephemeral / transient thing within the universe of primary aromas being used to talk about longevity.
I don't know the full history, but do know that the French word originally referred to a cluster of trees, from Old French "bosque," meaning wood; whence we also get "bosc" Bouquet can also refer to the aroma of perfume, and apparently was in use to refer to the aroma of wine by 1815.
The Oxford Companion, in the entry AROMA, notes that people schooled at University of Bordeaux include fermentation smells in bouquet, while in Burgundy they break it into Primary (grape), Secondary (fermentation and oak aging), and either Tertiary or Bouquet (bottle aging)
If you know, how did a floral term like "bouquet" get associated with tertiary aroma in the first place? It's a weird disjunction: the language of the most ephemeral / transient thing within the universe of primary aromas being used to talk about longevity.
I don't know the full history, but do know that the French word originally referred to a cluster of trees, from Old French "bosque," meaning wood; whence we also get "bosc" Bouquet can also refer to the aroma of perfume, and apparently was in use to refer to the aroma of wine by 1815.
The Oxford Companion, in the entry AROMA, notes that people schooled at University of Bordeaux include fermentation smells in bouquet, while in Burgundy they break it into Primary (grape), Secondary (fermentation and oak aging), and either Tertiary or Bouquet (bottle aging)