It's time for a very special date, perhaps with a special friend or maybe it's Valentine's Day or the day that you are going to propose to that special someone.
You go to an elegant restaurant and the waiter asks if you'd like some wine with your meal.
Do you know what to do next? Which wine goes with what entrees? Here are a few tips on wine tasting that will help you out of any embarrassing situation.
Accept the wine list and pretend you know exactly what you are doing.
Raise your brow and smile a satisfying smile.
Make your date think you approve of the list.
It is best not to order anything under $25.
Ask your date whether she would prefer white or red wine.
Don't be too rigid about the 'red wine with red meat and white wine with white meat' rule.
Of all the rules about tasting and drinking wine, this is one that is the most flexible and depends more upon your taste buds.
If your dinner prefers white, go directly to the German wines.
Here's the trick, select one of the most flexible wines in the world.
Select a Riesling wine.
Riesling wines come from Germany and they tend to be on the sweet side but it's crisp and it is of good quality.
The flexibility of a Riesling allows it to complement everything from pasta, vegetables and even salad.
If she says she prefers a red wine, order a Pinot Noir from either Oregon or California.
The Pinot Noirs complement almost anything including fish and red meat.
They are zesty but light.
You can find them any where between $20 and $30 and still get a very rich, high quality wine.
Aside from your choices between red and white, you will at some point need to deal with the terms dry and sweet in relation to wine.
Keep in mind the Riesling and the Pinot Noir as you consider sweet and dry wines.
The Pinot Noir wines offer a very versatile, food friendly Pinot Gris from the United States or Pinot Grigio from Italy.
Italian restaurants also offer red wine called Chianti Classico, which is much like Pinot Noir and is perfect with red meat and fish as well.
It works well with pasta and foods prepared with olive oil, vinegar, garlic and pesto.
In finer restaurants, your waiter will likely perform a typical serving ritual.
This means that he shows you the bottle for initial approval, and then he will open it for you and pour a spot of it into your glass.
You should sniff and then taste the wine.
If it meets the qualifications for your date, you can then allow him to pour her glass, and then yours.
This has been a long standing tradition of wine connoisseurs and being aware of this ritual will assure that it doesn't take you by surprise.
You certainly don't want to get this far, just to be embarrassed by the waiter and his actions.
You go to an elegant restaurant and the waiter asks if you'd like some wine with your meal.
Do you know what to do next? Which wine goes with what entrees? Here are a few tips on wine tasting that will help you out of any embarrassing situation.
Accept the wine list and pretend you know exactly what you are doing.
Raise your brow and smile a satisfying smile.
Make your date think you approve of the list.
It is best not to order anything under $25.
Ask your date whether she would prefer white or red wine.
Don't be too rigid about the 'red wine with red meat and white wine with white meat' rule.
Of all the rules about tasting and drinking wine, this is one that is the most flexible and depends more upon your taste buds.
If your dinner prefers white, go directly to the German wines.
Here's the trick, select one of the most flexible wines in the world.
Select a Riesling wine.
Riesling wines come from Germany and they tend to be on the sweet side but it's crisp and it is of good quality.
The flexibility of a Riesling allows it to complement everything from pasta, vegetables and even salad.
If she says she prefers a red wine, order a Pinot Noir from either Oregon or California.
The Pinot Noirs complement almost anything including fish and red meat.
They are zesty but light.
You can find them any where between $20 and $30 and still get a very rich, high quality wine.
Aside from your choices between red and white, you will at some point need to deal with the terms dry and sweet in relation to wine.
Keep in mind the Riesling and the Pinot Noir as you consider sweet and dry wines.
The Pinot Noir wines offer a very versatile, food friendly Pinot Gris from the United States or Pinot Grigio from Italy.
Italian restaurants also offer red wine called Chianti Classico, which is much like Pinot Noir and is perfect with red meat and fish as well.
It works well with pasta and foods prepared with olive oil, vinegar, garlic and pesto.
In finer restaurants, your waiter will likely perform a typical serving ritual.
This means that he shows you the bottle for initial approval, and then he will open it for you and pour a spot of it into your glass.
You should sniff and then taste the wine.
If it meets the qualifications for your date, you can then allow him to pour her glass, and then yours.
This has been a long standing tradition of wine connoisseurs and being aware of this ritual will assure that it doesn't take you by surprise.
You certainly don't want to get this far, just to be embarrassed by the waiter and his actions.
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