Sauvignon blanc is a white wine with the flavour of gooseberries. It contains a chemical called: 3-Mercapto-3-methylbutan-1-ol (MMB), which is a thiol. MMB is also believed to be a pheromone in cat’s urine. MMB is derived from felinine, an amino acid in cat’s urine. You could also say, therefore, that Sauvignon blanc contains the same chemical that is in cat’s urine.
A bit of chemistry but not particularly useful information except for the fact that it is quite interesting, I think. We cannot smell cat pheromones unless you are Sarah Hartwell! We can smell the aroma given off by wine. The group of chemicals called thiols contribute to the aroma of Sauvignon blanc wines.
I feel like a glass of Chardonnay all of a sudden……I wonder if the pheromone, MMB, is the chemical in cat’s urine that is impossible to get out of carpets or car seats! It is almost certainly more complicated than that.
Photo (wine) credit: Martin Krolikowski – collage by Michael (merging wine picture and chemical digram for MMB)
yea i dont drink wine much or beer unless special occassions can only have a few due to the amount of meds im on. i find i dont need that anyway. I wouldnt want to if it has that stuff in it
I like a beer at midday! And a bit of wine in the evening! 😉 Being a solicitor drove me to it. But I work through it all.
yea that would of been amazing and also very busy life to lead & Stressful i imagine.
Some things do drive us to drink…that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it lol 😉
Thank you. Don’t think so.
Have an entrenched aversion for joy-juice. Into homemade blackberry nectar. Don’t give a toot what anyone else quaffs, but damned if I’ll spend two minutes around them. While they never missed a day of work, both of my pitiful, leather-livered, monkey-backed brothers popped their clogs at age 62.
A seductive sensation? Sleeping pills. Dalmane is paradisiacal.(Haven’t popped it in 30 years, though.)