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Bananas

Very young wines--tank samples, wines which have undergone a very cold fermentation or freshly bottled wines--will often smell like bananas.
The component responsible for this is iso-amyl acetate, which diminishes with age.
Some nouveaux Beaujolais display this in spades.

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