Minerality in Wine: Textual Analysis of Chablis Premier Cru Tasting Notes

Table 3

Significant Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients () between vintage weather indices and word groups used to describe Chablis Premier Cru wine (1999 to 2019) in CellarTracker tasting notes. Nonprimary aroma and flavour word groups (lees, MLF, and oak) were excluded from the analysis. All wines were between 3 and 7 years of age when tasted.

		Coefficient ()	Significance (p)
Temperature
TmeanApr-Sep	vs. minerality	−0.43	0.052
	vs. tropical fruit	0.59	0.005
TmeanApr-Oct (GST)	vs. minerality	−0.48	0.029
	vs. tropical fruit	0.54	0.011
TmeanMay-Jul	vs. tropical fruit	0.50	0.022
TminSep (cool night index)	vs. acidity	−0.45	0.043
TminAug-Sep	vs. acidity	−0.57	0.007
	vs. orchard fruit	−0.37	0.099
	vs. salinity	−0.41	0.064
	vs. tropical fruit	0.40	0.069
Sunshine
SunhoursApr-Sep	vs. minerality	−0.57	0.007
	vs. stone fruit	0.40	0.072
	vs. tropical fruit	0.38	0.086
SunhoursAug-Sep	vs. minerality	−0.51	0.019
	vs. stone fruit	0.41	0.063
	vs. tropical fruit	0.38	0.093
Precipitation
PJun-Sep	vs. floral	−0.55	0.010
	vs. stone fruit	−0.38	0.086
PJun-Oct	vs. floral	−0.54	0.013
	vs. orchard fruit	−0.42	0.059
	vs. stone fruit	−0.42	0.062
	vs. tropical fruit	−0.46	0.035