What do you do at a wine tasting?
Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at
2:25 pm
Aldo, Property of Thistle asked:
im going to one over Labor day weekend when im on vacation.
im going to one over Labor day weekend when im on vacation.
do you just sit there and drink wine and eat cheese? or do you only taste it and spit it out.
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You eat everything and get drunk……..
most are small samples which you drink…others like you said, you spit out, but most you drink the wine…and in most cases , get hammered
You are supposed to take a sip and swirl it around your tongue then spit it out in a basin they provide. You do this to better get the flavor of the wine and to not get drunk….which would defeat the whole purpose for me
DRINK UP!
a wine tasting is exactly how it sounds you taste (sample) different types of wine (no spitting) and talk to different people
I concur with some of the other posts. Despite the fact that you are supposed to taste and spit, I never do. Just try some good wine (and swallow) and eat some cheese and crackers and fruits (usually the fare at these events)
sit there, take sips of different wines, make “hmm… mmm hmmmm…” noises every once in a while and move on. I **** wine :p
I never spit even though you are supposed to, I always swallow
Just drink and eat what they give you! There is usually a person leading it who will explain the wine and why it is paired with the food you are given. Have fun!
First, don’t eat or smoke beforehand.
You’ll get a big glass with a small amount of wine. Holt it by the stem as otherwise your hands will warm the wine. Swirl the glass repeatedly and make the wine rise up the glass a bit. Raise the glass to your nose and sniff deeply – you want to sniff the air, not inhale a load of wine. Hold your breath and try and identify what you smell. It’s ok if you say: farmyards, petrol, peaches, sawdust. Your interpretation is personal to you. Anyone telling you you’re ‘not supposed to do it like that’ is an ****. I am better at identifying colours than ‘normal’ smells.
You can do this three times without messing up your nose. Leave it a bit before sniffing the next wine.
Take a decent mouthful but not too huge – do not swallow – swish it around your mouth, tip your head forward a bit and carefully and relatively swiftly inhale a little air through your mouth. Keep the opening small so you don’t dribble. This will get more flavour to your olfactory senses. Think about how the flavour has changed and continues to change. Swish it again and then swallow or spit.
If you swallow, you will deaden your tastebuds and get drunk enough to not bother ‘tasting’ any more after a while. It’ll be great fun. Enjoy.
1. You do not “sit” there and drink wine and eat cheese, you “stand” sipping wine and eating cheese & creackers (and sometimes hummus) there in usually groups of two or three, and you tell “Tales of The Grape” from the treasure chest of fascinating stories you’ve just rehearsed in the past few days in order to sound worldly and slightly equestrian to please your girlfriend’s burgeoning aristocratic cravings…
2. Make it clear from the git go that you are not an unsophistacated booob like the rest of the peasants standing around you, and you know how to hold a wine glass by the stem and swirl the wine inside without spilling it on your girlfriend’s white Sunday Dress, and pretend to be two class rungs higher in society than you really are…oh, and pretend you really drink wine for the taste, the buzz is just a secondary side affect that you don’t enjoy…
3. Do whatever your girlfriend says, this is “Her” day, make it special, don’t resist her authority, take small sips, cause 90 small sips will get you plastered, and dress up a little bit, no sleave-less shirts or take tops or sandals unless you’re a woman, but women should dress schmexy and show a lot of leg, and really use those high heels to their best advantage…
Order of best to worst…(and learn to pronounce them correctly.)
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Carlo Rossi, Boonesfarm, Night Train, Grape Juice that’s been sitting on the counter for two weeks…
(You’ll have a great time…(and bring pain killers, Tums, and fake-talk on your cell phone to avoid having to socialize with Scooter McWickewitz and his way-too-flirtatious wife.)
YOU TASTE ALL KINDS OF WINE from what i hear. never been too one. sounds like fun
First of all, you don’t spit. This is an odd myth that used to be somewhat true in some places some of the time. The basins they provide are not for spitting they’re for pouring any wine you don’t want into. A bunch of people spiiting into buckets really wouldn’t be a pleasant environment to be in would it? Take a sip, savor it and if you like it you can drink the rest or pour it out if you don’t (or if you’re trying to keep very sober). Don’t be afraid of offending anyone by pouring out the wine. Keep this in mind, the tastes they give you are usually 1 oz and a glass is 5 oz, most wineries give you 5 tastes at most which mean you’re only drinking 1 glass of wine per stop (if you don’t pour anything out). Sometimes cheese is provided but you usually need to by a cheese platter if you want one.
And as far as the answerer who “ranked” some random grapes and styles of wine, that’s b.s. The grape used or style it’s made into has nothing to do with the quality of the wine. Somebody may like Cabernet more than Pinot Noir but it doesn’t mean that Cabernet is “better” than Pinot Noir or the other way around. Both grapes make amazing and terrible wines, quality depends on the winemaker and the conditions the grapes were planted in and how they were tended.
If u are not drunk at the end what’s the point fer god’s sake!!!