GK wrote:
I also think your mood, and internal balance plays a part.
One thing is for sure- nothing beats swallowing. That wave of flavour and aroma that rises back up the throat and invades your nasal region just as your mouth is finishing its assessment of the wines flavour. Only together do you get a true sense of the wines character.
One thing is for sure- nothing beats swallowing. That wave of flavour and aroma that rises back up the throat and invades your nasal region just as your mouth is finishing its assessment of the wines flavour. Only together do you get a true sense of the wines character.
I've had a simlar conversation with Mel here [ a while back], pretty much the same angles were considered, but not so thoroughly - Sipping and swallowing: After the mouth cavity, tongue and gums, the liquor trickles gently past the nose passages at the back of the throat. As one swallows, saliva is generated to lubricate this passage, and as a digestive catalyst. I believe the mix of the saliva and the liquor as it goes down, changes one's perception. If it is hot - that changes almost everything about the fruit !
How she does 40 / 50 or more in a short afternoon - God Only Knows.
The wine that has most excited me, was quite recently, there is a note here - Carruades de Lafite '98 during dinner - [courtesy of a TWS member with TWS cellarage] This wine went on and on and on ..... a monumental finish in terms of length and staying power - Now .....Just how could I have experienced that - Without Swallowing
