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British culinary expert Delia Smith described maple syrup as " a unique ingredient, smooth-and silky-textured, with a sweet, distinctive flavour – hints of caramel with overtones of toffee will not do – and a rare colour, amber set alight.

Maple flavour is, well, maple flavour, uniquely different from any other.

" Agriculture Canada has developed a " flavour wheel " that details 91 unique flavours that can be present in maple syrup.

These flavours are divided into 13 families: vanilla, empyreumatic ( burnt ), milky, fruity, floral, spicy, foreign deterioration or environment, maple, confectionery, and plants forest-humus-cereals, herbaceous or ligneous.

These flavours are evaluated using a procedure similar to wine tasting.