I bet caramel in wine sounds good. It does, and you can definitely smell some caramel in your wine. You might smell caramel, burnt sugar, cooking sugar, maple or sweetness in a wine, so we can just call that caramel. The caramel term is also used for a category of wine aromas that are kind of unique. You might smell burnt sugar, maple, brown sugar, caramel in a wine. That makes sense; it's very often in a sparkling wine. A little bit is sometimes in a red wine, and you very often smell a little bit of maple or brown sugar in a red wine. Other parts of a wine that are also classified as caramel get a little bit funnier, and one of them is chocolate. I know you don't really think of chocolate as being in wine, but you can smell chocolate in a red wine a lot. You can also use soy sauce as a wine descriptor for wine. This might sound a little strange, but it's also considered a brown sugar or caramel type of aroma. You can get the smell of soy sauce in a sturdy red wine, believe it or not; in a sparkling wine, and also in a white wine. So if you smell brown sugar, burnt sugar, caramel, soy sauce, chocolate; anything like that, you're smelling a caramel aroma. It might be a little bit fleeting, but it will add to your overall enjoyment of the wine.