degust

verb

1. To taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour

   “The bread was passing stale the cheese a trifle hard the beer somewhat flat but the pair had never degusted a meal with more relish.”

   “I began to tell him all the tale of the demons, at which relation, first of all, he cried "Pshaw!"... But after he had degusted the matter a little he bade me repeat it all again from the beginning...”

   “He took the bottle filled up his glass half full and degusted it, *en connoisseur*, and said it is good but mine at home is better, it is older”

   “as the bird soars once more, the observer may see it [the fish] being slowly degusted.”