Tasting wines vs Drinking wines

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Warren Edwardes

Warren Edwardes
I have just drunk a wine which I thought was really luscious fruity and in short wonderful every time I tasted it over the last few years.

But I find what is great tasting and spitting can be just way over the top half way through the second glass.

Is wine tasting (and spitting) a fair test of a wine destined to be drunk?
 
originally posted by Warren Edwardes: Is wine tasting (and spitting) a fair test of a wine destined to be drunk?
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Yes.

It all depends on your perspective.

Sure you can get some skewed perspectives if you only take one small sip at the tasting and don't have the frame of reference about what you would like at home. But I'm guessing it would have been different if you took several sips at the tasting while spitting, over the course of several minutes, because then you probably still would have gotten tired of it.

At least that's what happens to me. And I often spit at home.
 
That's a little strange to me, Rahsaan. Do you also spit out food after tasting it at home? it seems to me that either one wants some wine or one doesn't. Still, each to their own!
 
originally posted by Tom Blach:
That's a little strange to me, Rahsaan. Do you also spit out food after tasting it at home? it seems to me that either one wants some wine or one doesn't. Still, each to their own!
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Tom -- I think if you saw Rahsaan, you might guess that he spits food. On the other hand, you might surmise that he can't afford to spit food. :)
 
Tom,
I know folks who can taste and spit and get all they need - I'm not one of them. I have to sit with a wine, have it with food, let it air; before I feel comfortable making an assessment or writing a tasting note.
I'm just not that good on a taste of two.
Best, Jim
 
I have had the pleasure of dining with Rahsaan, Claude. He certainly takes up rather less space around the table than I do!
 
originally posted by Tom Blach:
Do you also spit out food after tasting it at home? it seems to me that either one wants some wine or one doesn't.
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Even though I love the gastronomical pleasures of food and try to make most meals as interesting and delicious as possible, I usually don't eat a greater quantity than is necessary for nutritional purposes.

With wine, none of it is necessary for nutritional purposes so in some respects it is all excess. Sure, one or two glasses are fine and not a problem. But if I'm relaxing at home with a whole bottle over the course of the evening I don't necessarily need all that alcohol. I can certainly handle it and won't get sick. But the alcohol part doesn't necessarily add anything to my quality of life and on the contrary it takes away from my quality of life. But I still want to keep tasting the wine!
 
For me it depends how well I understand the wine. If it's my 10th vintage at a producer, I can spit the wine and still understand it. If it's a totally new idiom, that's another story.
 
originally posted by Warren Edwardes:
But I find what is great tasting and spitting can be just way over the top half way through the second glass.
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That is the trap that the big-name tasters fall into (sayeth some here).

Is wine tasting (and spitting) a fair test of a wine destined to be drunk?
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Yes, if you keep your wits about you (...and you had some wits to begin with).
 
originally posted by Rahsaan: Sure, one or two glasses are fine and not a problem. But if I'm relaxing at home with a whole bottle over the course of the evening I don't necessarily need all that alcohol. I can certainly handle it and won't get sick. But the alcohol part doesn't necessarily add anything to my quality of life and on the contrary it takes away from my quality of life. But I still want to keep tasting the wine!
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Rahsaan - the wine bulimic.
 
originally posted by maureen:
originally posted by Rahsaan: Sure, one or two glasses are fine and not a problem. But if I'm relaxing at home with a whole bottle over the course of the evening I don't necessarily need all that alcohol. I can certainly handle it and won't get sick. But the alcohol part doesn't necessarily add anything to my quality of life and on the contrary it takes away from my quality of life. But I still want to keep tasting the wine!
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Rahsaan - the wine bulimic.
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Now that he's in DC, he could always just invite you over. You could even bring a bottle.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Tom Blach:
Do you also spit out food after tasting it at home? it seems to me that either one wants some wine or one doesn't.
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Even though I love the gastronomical pleasures of food and try to make most meals as interesting and delicious as possible, I usually don't eat a greater quantity than is necessary for nutritional purposes.
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Don't let us tempt you past your limits.

Careful around this crowd, many of them are known to exceed quantities necessary for nutritional purposes of both food and wine, and yet they continue to stalk the earth.
 
originally posted by Warren Edwardes:
I suspect a number of wines have been recently designed for tasting rather than drinking. Quite logically so I suppose.
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Welcome to Wine Disorder! The best place on the internet to veer off from blatantly commercialized grape-based beverages.
 
I need to drink the wine with a meal. My palate is too slow for tasting and spitting. I got burned by this just last week. Tasted a California pinot noir and thought it was nice with earthy flavors and actual acidity. Saw the wine on sale, took it home and by the second glass it was all cherry-cola and residual sugar. Gross.

But I know people, Jeff Connel and Denyse Louis specifically, who can have just a little sip and get the whole picture instantly 99 percent of the time. Must be nice.

Best,
Kay
 
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