"I'll be irritated if people say, 'There's a smoky quality to that wine,' " he said.

It was dark and foaming, with a smoky quality that spoke of oak kegs stored in cool, deep caverns.

I found an attractive smoky quality and good fruit.

There was a smoky quality to the air, and a faint smell of soot.

But even air-cured chorizo like these have a mysteriously smoky quality.

The smoky quality was in his eyes again.

An arc of caliginous sunlight sliced through the doorway, giving the interior a nightmarish smoky quality.

The air, still thick with heat, had taken on a smoky quality and tasted of dust and parched grass.

He then piles on smoked salmon, which gives the potatoes the same irresistibly smoky quality of home fries cooked with bacon.