Now the smell you can smell is new oak actually.
The young wine is aged in new French oak for around two years.
In her hands she carried a bouquet of apple blossoms and shiny new oak leaves.
The various esters that a wine picks up from exposure to new oak.
If the barriques were made of new oak, the wine gained distinct vanilla flavors, too.
After 17 months in new oak, the wine was bottled unfiltered.
About a quarter of the wine was aged in new American oak.
Milmanda is made using traditional methods, and fermented in barrels of new French oak.
Since then, the proportion of the chateau's wine aged in new oak has been about 50 percent.
Although the tree was destroyed, Queen Victoria planted a new oak in the same spot.