You’ve probably seen drink pros perform what looks like a preposterous ritual when they taste wine: sniff, swirl, sniff again, sip, suck, swoosh then spit extravagantly into a spittoon. It may seem absurdly ostentatious but there is method in its apparent madness which allows the taster to get the full nuances of everything going on in the glass.
The first sniff is to detect primary aromas that leap from the wine when it’s first
