[PW] Biting the wine

[Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.)]

Here's a not-too-unlikely possibility.  One of the German words for
"sip" is "nippen", and there are German wine websites that talke about
"nippen" as what you do when wine-tasting -- slosh it around in your
mouth before swallowing.  Of course, "nip" in English is also a synonym
for "bite".  If the Austrian's command of English wasn't superb, he may
have thought that "nippen" could be expressed in English as either "nip"
or "bite".

-- Tom, off now to take a nip 

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