tasting
n 1: a small amount (especially of food or wine)
2: a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the
taste buds; "a wine tasting" [syn: {taste}]
3: taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality;
"cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed
most" [syn: {savoring}, {savouring}, {relishing}, {degustation}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0