Spat It All – A Very Discreet Tasting

This may be my weirdest tasting ever.

An overall lousy morning: my wine pick-ups were all screwed up in one way or another, so the warehouse rejected my Customs paperwork, so I had to spend lunchtime scrunched over the steering wheel duplicating in duplicate. I turned up at the Domaine Rapet Pere et Fils at 2PM to pick up a dozen cases. The place was a hub-bub of activity, comme d’habitude. Labeled the cases; loaded it in the van; got the paperwork; ready to go when Vincent Rapet says… want to taste something? I demur; say no (too busy, just ate, lots of pick-ups… etc). He says, there are several open bottles of old Charlemagne and Corton. I reconsider. He takes me to the caveau, gives me a clean glass and says he’s got to go to a meeting. Leaves me there with Charlemagne 1996 & 86… and Corton 2001, 1996, 85 and 78. Alone

 

YIKES!!!

How are you going to drive?

 

I don't understand...
English not my mother tongue...
Was it bad? or good?
Or you just don't like wine?

 

Wine judges spit all the wine so they don't get drunk - you roll the wine around your mouth then spit into a bucket. If you have to drive you do the same thing, taste then spit. It is a terrible waste.

 

Except when you're tasting a lot of wines. You still absorb alcohol through your mouth, and can get a good buzz if you're at it long enough.

 

Now thad you explain is horribly obvious...
Thanks...