After having gone through and tasting 45 bottles of wine in less than two hours, it has just reaffirmed the constant point that's been driven, size matters. Though, more precisely, size and shape really matters in tasting wine.
However, it really doesn't help that the amount of wine being poured was quite substantial by comparison to the volume in which the glass can hold. It could, however, be that when the person dispensing the samples observes that the taster is spitting, they may be pouring more than those who are swallowing. The more one thinks about it, the more sense it makes since the person who spits are tasting it for the taste rather than drinking it to get sloshed. At the end of the night, even spitting all, it couldn't be helped that I was feeling sloshed at the end of the day.
What had reaffirmed this belief of size and shap matter is the fact that most of the reds had came off as austere, heavily tannic, and rather unpleasant. Its hard to believe that all the reds were too young to be released and increasingly more so that most if not all were closed off. That is to say though, that even in a small venue where there is only but ten wines to taste, there is at least one that would be the most pleasant and enjoyable as oppose to this event where there were very little to none.
Though, this shape did suit well for the sparkling wines which benefit from a long slender glass much similar to that of champagne flutes. Anyhow, enough ranting...
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