Wine with Leslie: Aromatic wines you won't soon forget 

Here are three wines and a beer with fascinating aromas to try.

Wine glasses are curved is to trap the scents, you need a glass with a curved rim to get the full sensory experience. Picture: iStock

Wine is a sensory pleasure and the wines we appreciate most have a combination of elements that make them pleasurable, not just their taste but how they react physically with our mouth and our body in general, and the memories and emotions they invoke.

And all of these characteristics are most influenced by our sense of smell, by far the most important sense when appreciating a glass of wine.