Do you have to spit, or can you swallow the wine?

Question

and do you have to eat cheese to clean the palette between tastings? I would think that the only reason to spit is so you don't get drunk. Does each wine taste that different? All of my wine tastes yeasty, but it's only four bucks a gallon for 14% applejack and I can never wait for it to get dry and clean and sharp, but I've tasted good aflvien, or how you say? I just make mine in the jug it comes in so I don't have to worry about sanitizing anything. Are people who are passionate about wine snobs? Or is it just one of the finer things in life to be enjoyed. I don't enjoy my applejack, I just drink it because I can.. pertnear 200 gallons a year and it's legal as sin. I don't see any sense in swishing or rolling or spitting or letting it breath, I just chill it Thursday to let the yeast fall out, and drink it Saturday night, and sunday, and monday.

Answer 1

The best thing to eat is crackers to clean between tastings. The reason for spitting out wine is so you dont get drunk. If you are only doing like 5 kinds and and ounce of each you could go ahead and drink it. Just use your judgement lol

Depending on what kind of wine you get it will taste different. You can get good wine at a low price but, you cant go flat out dirt cheap lol its kinda like you get what you pay for.

Its always fun pairing wine with foods if you have never tried that. Lets say you have a real acidic wine and you pair it with chicken picata the lemon from the picatata sauce would reduce the acid from the wine.

Hope I helped!

M@tt

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Answer 2

The spitting is for more official wine tasting, and yes it's so you don't get drunk. If the taster was drunk, the last one would always win.

Wine is very much considered one of the finer things in life, there can be a big difference in flavour, more so than with beer.

The reason you don't see any point in the detail of fine wine drinking is because your drink of choice is basically cheap c**p. You make and drink it as fast as possible, the subtleties that a wine connoisseur looks for are completely absent in your applejack, it's just too powerful.

But as long as you're happy with it, that's all that counts.

Answer 3

Crackers are actually a better cleanser than cheese.

You can swallow the wine if you want. The only reason to spit it out, is so you don't get snookered from all the wine tasting you do.

Answer 4

Actually I was watching a guy talk about food tastings just the other day, for ice cream actually, and what he said was he spit out the ice cream when he tasted it because if he didn't he would get full. If you are full when you are tasting things it changes the taste. I can believe that, because when you are hungry things just taste better.

I would guess that being drunk would change the taste of the wine also.

However in the case of the cheese, its not only to clean the palate but also to give a contrasting taste to compare the wine to, and also because the flavor of the cheese changes the flavor of the wine.