10 Rules of Wine Service

[malcolmjolley]

Please excuse the shameless self promotion, but we've got a lot of email on this from around Toronto, where Zoltan's a well known wine consutant, and I'm curious what the larger eGullet community thinks...

10 Commandments of Wine Service

Malcolm

[GordonCooks]

Well......rather basic I thought. Most of the rules fall under service in general. It reads like a How to kiss the customer's butt personally. The main purpose a restaurant keeps a sommelier on staff is pairing a wine with your food for the best dining experience. Show me a sommelier that's not passionate about every bottle and why a certain wine makes the best pairing and I'll show you a place I probably wouldn't bother to ask the sommelier anything.

More stress on wine education and less "Wine for Dummies"

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Edited February 12, 2008 by GordonCooks (log)

[MSRadell]

I've got to agree with the statement "More stress on wine education and less "Wine for Dummies"". In my opinion the best commandments in the list are numbers 11 - 13, the first 10 are just too basic and should be done by anyone in the restaurant business. A Sommelier should know and promote his wines of not merely allow customers to pick. Yes he needs to know when to back off and let the customer make a decision but up-front he should take the lead promoting the wines he has!