He added that spitting wine out while tasting prevents you from fully appreciating its complex flavour.
Instead, drinkers should swallow every drop, he said in his book Neuroenology: How The Brain Creates The Taste of Wine.
Drinking wine is vital ‘for obtaining the most information possible about the quality of the wine,’ he writes.
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