{"id":53210,"date":"2025-04-02T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=53210"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:51:16","slug":"qotd-restaurant-wine-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/04\/02\/qotd-restaurant-wine-etiquette\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Restaurant wine etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here’s a tip when dining out and the sommelier<\/em> asks you to “taste” the wine: don’t do it<\/em>. Pick up the sample glass, swirl it a couple of times and then sniff it cautiously. If it’s not rancid \u2014 and you’ll know that<\/em> when you smell it \u2014 just nod and say, “That’ll do”. If he says, “Don’t you want to taste it?” reply “I don’t need to”. Then sit back and carry on with your conversation, ignoring him.<\/p>\n

For extra points<\/em>: if it’s a dark red like a cabernet or burgundy, wince slightly, then tell the sommelier<\/em> to let it breathe for ten or so minutes before he serves it to the table. (That’s a cheat, by the way; all<\/em> reds need to breathe a little after uncorking.)<\/p>\n

The wine world is full of phonies who like to show off. The way to make people think you know what you’re talking about is to say less, not more. What you do<\/em> (see above) is more impressive than what you say.<\/p>\n

Kim du Toit, “Busted”, Splendid Isolation<\/em><\/a>, 2019-11-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a tip when dining out and the sommelier asks you to “taste” the wine: don’t do it. Pick up the sample glass, swirl it a couple of times and then sniff it cautiously. If it’s not rancid \u2014 and you’ll know that when you smell it \u2014 just nod and say, “That’ll do”. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,131],"tags":[977,1024,907],"class_list":["post-53210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-wine","tag-bordeaux","tag-burgundy","tag-snobbery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dQe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94944,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53210\/revisions\/94944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}