Subscribers have asked me how I taste wines.
The process is pretty straightforward:
- I open half a dozen bottles of wine at a time
- I pour some of each wine into a tasting glass
- I taste the whites before they go in the fridge, and after
- I leave the sample wines in the glass for 4 – 5 hours, tasting occasionally (and spitting)
- I drink some of the better wines in the group with dinner
- I repeat the exercise the next evening, and the one after that. I might keep a wine on the bench for another night or two if I’m not sure.