Is the sip and spit method enough to evaluate a wine On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:48:53 GMT, Leo Bueno Seriously, wine WAS made for accompanying a meal shared with good friends, I find that sip and spit works to get some fleeting impressions about the most obvious characteristics of a wine, but one can get fooled by wines made to seduce precisely in such circumstances. This is whi so many wines that impress under these conditions can be so disappoionting once you take them home. It is also hard to separate each wine from the previous when you do a series of sip and spit. Sure, pros do it and some of us fake it, but if you love wine there is nothing more boring. More than six and I lose interest. Some wines that rate poorly at the sip-n-spit can turn out marvellous a few hours later or the day after, once they get some air. One of the pleasures of drinking wine at the table (other than the matching thing, which I enjoy immensely), is to see how the wine changes in your glbutt as time goes by. I always keep some in my glbutt for later, even much later. HAve fun Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France 
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