noun (n)

• a small amount (especially of food or wine)(noun.cognition)

  source: wordnet30
• a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds(noun.act)

  Example:
  A wine tasting.
  

  Synonym:
  taste
  

  source: wordnet30
• taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.(noun)

  source: webster1913