The Wine Etiquette Guide - Your Defense Against Wine Snobbery

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Chuck Blethen. The Wine Etiquette Guide - Your Defense Against Wine Snobbery

Acknowledgements

Foreword

What is Wine Etiquette & Why is it Important?

Wine Etiquette

What is Wine?

Wine Experts & How to Use Them

Wine Types and Winemaking

Bottles

Corks, Screw Caps & Capsules

Corkscrews & Foil Cutters

Serving Temperatures for Wines

Wine Glasses for all Occasions

Holding a Wine Glass

Toasting

Wine Storage

Wine Etiquette in Non-Restaurant Venues

…Wine shops/stores & dealing with wine labels

…Wine bars

…Wine tasting parties

…Informal blind wine tasting

…Wine tasting dinners

Wine tasting dinners typically require a reservation. Call the restaurant or winery well in advance to make a reservation and verify their expected dress code …Wine tasting at wineries

…At home as host

…As guest at someone’s home

Wine Etiquette in Restaurants

…Wine pairing with entrées

…Wine pairing with cheese

…Wine pairing with chocolate

White Chocolate Wine Suggestions

Milk Chocolate Wine Suggestions

Dark Chocolate Wine Suggestions

…Navigating around wine lists

…Corkage fees

…Ordering wine

…When the wine arrives tableside

…Dining in the presence of an oenophile

…What to do with the cork or screw cap

…Declining a serving of wine

…Sending back a bad bottle of wine

…Tipping

Drinking vs. Tasting

…Tools to help you learn wine evaluation

…The Blethen Wine Evaluation Chart

…Chuck Blethen’s Wine Flavor/Aroma Chart

…Tasting/evaluating wines

…Wine evaluation techniques

Appendix A. Food Etiquette – The Foundation for Good Manners

Navigating Your Way Around a Table Setting

What to Expect as a Guest at a Buffet

Table Manners

Sometime you may have to deal with dining’s little problems. The general rule for removing food from your mouth is that it should go out the same way it went in. Therefore, olive pits can be delicately dropped onto an open palm before putting them onto your plate, and a piece of bone discovered in a bite of chicken should be returned to the plate by way of the fork. Fish is an exception to the rule. It is fine to remove the tiny bones with your fingers, since they would be difficult to drop from your mouth onto the fork. If you need to spit out something like a piece of gristle, spit it into your serviette, so that you can keep it out of sight

…Special manners on a date (for you guys)

…Good manners at a friend’s home

…Using a knife, fork & spoon

Holding a Utensil

The American Style or Zig-Zag Method

The European Style or Continental Method

Helping your food

What to do with Once-Used Utensils

Placement of Utensils in General

…How to use a Serviette (cloth napkin)

…Tips for dealing with dining’s little problems

…Foods you can eat with your fingers

Appendix B. Glossary of Wine Evaluation Terminology

Appendix C. Toasts

Sunday — Absent Friends. Monday — Our Ships at Sea. Tuesday — Our Men. Wednesday — Ourselves. Thursday — Bloody War and a Sickly Season (it meant more rapid promotion) Friday — A Willing Foe and Plenty of Sea Room (in which to defeat them) Saturday — Sweethearts and Wives (to which there was always the added and unofficial comment sotto voice "May they Never Meet!")

Appendix D. Wine Poetry

Appendix E. Champagne and Sparkling Wines

Appendix F. Mead

Appendix G. Winemaking Terms

Vigneron:

Appendix H. How to Interpret Wine Labels

…Germany

German terms that you might see on a label:

…France

French terms that you may see on a French wine label:

…Italy

…Spain

…Greece

…Portugal

…Austria

Appendix I. Kosher Wine Etiquette

Appendix J. Ice Wines

Appendix K. Wine Snobbery

Appendix L. References

Epilogue

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This book would not have been possible without the years of winemaking and wine drinking with friends, family and business associates.

Special thanks to my wife, Jeannie, for her help and hours spent tasting, learning, and building our wine room. She couldn't resist reading my second edition with a red pen in hand, and when she was done, the top of the book bristled with little red tabs! This third printing contains her careful proofreading corrections.

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Bubble gum, chewing gum and breath mints will alter the taste of wine. Be sure to rinse your mouth well with water before beginning a tasting.

If you have negative comments about a wine, keep them to yourself, particularly when at a vineyard tasting room. Courteous wine tasters do not volunteer their opinions about a wine until other tasters have had a chance to taste the wine. Serious tasters like to form their opinions independently and are sure to throw dirty looks at anyone who interrupts their concentration.

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