[PW] Bite the Wine

[Simon Cauchi]

On 31/01/2008, at 5:28 AM, <swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "You must learn," he said, not to swallow your wine. Swallowing
> Is bad manners.
>
> In Vienna we call It wine biting," he continued. "Wine must be bitten
> and not swallowed.

Presumably the Austrian speaker meant that wine should be sipped, not 
gulped. I wonder how he'd have expressed the idea in German.

Simon Cauchi
<simon.cauchi at xtra.co.nz>