Spitting wine in the pour bucket at a winery?
I’m sorry, but don’t you think that the wine snobs should swallow the smallest amount they can to actualy enjoy the true finish of a wine.
Spitting should be for judging mass tastings IMHO or if the wine is that bad……
At a winery you only get to taste a few and move on.
Spit or not to spit?
I think that I Remember it is called the "Pour Bucket" not the spitoon.
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Spit. Though technically you are suppose to spit back into your glass and then dump the glass into the pour bucket. Often people do not swallow it. Maybe they are the DD. Maybe currently they are medication that doesn’t mix well but would still like a bottle for 2 weeks from now when they are not on those meds. Maybe the wine WAS that bad. I’ve been to several wine tasting where it was just not worth drinking. For example I feel if you are giving someone a muscadine wine, you need to prerequisite it with this and not just say Flavors of peach. Ugh! I’ve also had numerous people tell me that while I don’t like merlot (I like others but I’ve never had a merlot I liked), I should at least try THIS merlot. It’s terrible just like all merlots and I don’t want to drink a whole pour. Some places do just about 2 oz but some pour about half a glass.
The fact that you only get to taste a few is exactly why you should spit. If you drink something potent or terrible, your palette will completely mess up the next wine.
that’s the same question I ask my women.
Most of the judging is done before drinking. They don’t want the last tastes to be impaired.
That’s what the bucket is there for. Some of us tour wineries regularly just to see what the coming wines are sizing to be like. We are hitting a handful of wineries to do this. We don’t want to get drunk in the process. Many of the wines offered at the winery tasting rooms are young still and haven’t developed their full flavor (and we know it)–so they aren’t wines we would DRINK at that stage of their aging.