On the wine lists that have started paying attention, the half-bottle section is no longer a polite afterthought tucked between…
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The check arrives at the end of a long table. A bottle of 2010 Barolo, opened earlier with a salute…
On a Tuesday morning in November, in the small print-out of the by-the-glass list that lives on a clipboard behind…
A host pours a magnum of Champagne into a wide-bellied crystal decanter and sets it on the table to “let…
Turn a bottle of imported wine over and look at the back, just above the legally required Surgeon General warning.…
It is nine in the morning at a fine-dining house in a mid-sized American city, and the person who runs…
Riedel sells thirty-plus varietal glasses. A 2015 Tokyo sniff-cam study and 2001 research show how many wine glass shapes actually matter.
The math is not arbitrary, the multiplier is not uniform, and the second-cheapest bottle is not the trap. How sommeliers actually build restaurant wine markup.
Somewhere around 2011, a generation of American Chardonnay drinkers stopped ordering Chardonnay. The phenomenon had a name, ABC (Anything But…
The tannin meets the fat and does not bind to it. That, in one sentence, is why most of what…