Wine Tasting

[Brom]

"buy one large bottle of a mild white such as trebbiano, and pass it around for people to rinse their glasses with it between wines. It's better than water, which has more chemicals to affect flavor."

Come now.

You think water rinsing affects the flavor of the next wine more than a wine rinse? You must have used either mighty weak trebbiano or mighty bad water.

Do you wash your glasses in wine?

A single glass per taster can do (w/ spares as noted above). Each should be rinsing the mouth with water from their glass anyway, so a little extra water, rinse the glass with it and into the spit bucket.

Concerning the tasting order, considering that by far the vast majority of Rieslings available in the US are not dry finished, I would advise against tasting that varietal second in a mixed group of whites. Anyway, this is something the leader of the tasting will decide.