What is the word for the act of drawing air through your mouthful of wine? [closed]

Some wine tasters will take a sip of wine and suck air through it making a slurping bubbling sound.

What is the word for it?

Solution 1:

Wine tasting involves the nose, the tongue, and retronasal passage. When a sommelier slurps wine, it is to smell the aromas of the warmed wine that is in the mouth. This technique is "retronasal breathing." When a sip of wine is in the mouth, a gentle inhale (usually through pursed lips) over the wine allows subtle aromas to be "tasted" by olfactory cells as the aroma passes through the retronasal passage in the back of the throat up to the sinus cavity. It can be a noisy technique, but quite effective.

Two sources to consider: A scientific article from the Flavour Journal: https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13411-014-0030-9 and A less formal discussion on the Wine Folly site, with some visuals: https://winefolly.com/deep-dive/science-of-wine-tasting/