Tasting wines vs Drinking wines

originally posted by SFJoe:
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.
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Yeah, but if it's someone I've been following for 10-15 years, chances are I'll want to drink it.

If you aren't doing it in a professional capacity, tasting and spitting is a waste of time.

I've never understood people who drink wine as a cocktail either.

I could say to each their own, but I'm pretty sure I'm right and each is wrong.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
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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Yeah, but Connell likes everything. Or rather, he always seems to find something in a wine to admire. He's quite interesting to taste with in that respect.
 
Rahsaan, Seth and I are taking you to Drink when you finally move here.

Also...

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.
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The problem is, our usual methods of corruption (the King Fung duckfest, Lawton's deep-fried pork belly confit) aren't going to work on Slim Roland Kirk. There's always cheese, but then one runs the risk of scaring off those of delicate sensibilities (Joe Perry). Perhaps butter-poached butter is the answer.
 
Place. And concept, if you'd like. Also, mind-changer. Though if you try to spit there, we're going to have problems.
 
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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That's quite disciplined. Ever try being an ascetic?

And for the lonely bottle and you: no one says you need to drink the entire bottle in one setting. I hardly ever do. Unless it is smashing Burgundy...my downfall. But then you don't like to keep bottles around for the second night to see how they develop?
 
originally posted by MarkS: That's quite disciplined.
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Not really. If I eat too much I feel ill.

That said, my hectic life leads to relatively-large portions (of good clean food) to fuel my lifestyle.

And for the lonely bottle and you: no one says you need to drink the entire bottle in one setting. I hardly ever do. Unless it is smashing Burgundy...my downfall. But then you don't like to keep bottles around for the second night to see how they develop?
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These days, there are very few wines I like better the second day.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Tom Blach:
He means drinking it before dinner when you should be having a cocktail!
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I thought wine before dinner was called an apritif, not a cocktail.
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It may well be so in Europe.In America you have cocktails!
I agree about wine on the second day, but that's probably because of my rather narrow field of consumption.
 
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