Leo Bueno wrote:
> Wondering what your take is on the technique of evaluating a wine by
> the typical one sip and spit method, used of necessity at wine
> tastings.
>
> I find that one sip can be used to rule out a bad wine, but it's not
> enough to fully appreciate the good ones. In other words, wines that
> are merely good upon sipping at first later get better the more of
> them I drink (i.e., don't spit), while others do not
>
> So, it looks to me that to fully evaluate a wine, one has to drink
it.
>
> If I am right, then this means that magazine point ratings derived
> from the sip and spit method are even less precise than we normally
> think.
>
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Wine is intended to be drunk with food, not sampled and spit out. The
ONLY way to evaluate a wine (if you feel compelled to do this) is by
serving it and consuming it with a meal.