Wine Tasting

[Thomas]

The obvious reason for pouring out the taste (or spitting) is so as not to consume a lot of alcohol when you are tasting a lot of wine. It takes practice, but you can truly taste wine without swallowing it; us judges do it all the time.

Of course, in a wine tasting room at a winery there is no rule or particular practice, but a winery is best advised to provide dump buckets and to encourage minimal, if any, swallowing.