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Peppery vs Rotundone - What's the difference?

peppery | rotundone |

As an adjective peppery

is having the taste of pepper.

As a noun rotundone is

(organic compound) a sesquiterpene responsible for a peppery taste in wine.

peppery

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having the taste of pepper.
  • Having a fiery temperament.
    • a peppery old Army major
  • *1884 ,
    • For I'm a peppery potentate, \ Who's little inclined his claim to bate, \ To fit the wit of a bit of a chit, \ And that's the long and the short of it!

    rotundone

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (organic compound) A sesquiterpene responsible for a peppery taste in wine.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 4, author=Harold Mcgee, title=What’s the Peppery Note in Those Shirazes?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The Australian scientists may also have discovered how these highly spiced potatoes were allowed to leave the kitchen: they tested 49 people and found that about 20 percent of them could not detect rotundone at all, even at concentrations far above what’s found in white pepper. }}