The Spring Festival is approaching, gathering with relatives and friends is indispensable. I believe that everyone has prepared a lot of wine for the New Year. Bring a few bottles to the dinner, open your heart, and talk about the joys and sorrows of the past year.
Pouring wine can be said to be an essential professional skill in the wine bureau. In the Chinese wine culture, there is a lot of attention to pouring wine. But how do you pour wine for others at the dinner table? What is the correct posture for pouring wine?
Chinese New Year is coming soon, hurry up and learn the etiquette that should be paid attention to when pouring wine!
Prepare clean paper towels or napkins in advance to wipe the mouth of the bottle. Before pouring red wine, wipe the mouth of the bottle with a clean towel. (Some wines that need to be kept at a lower temperature must also be poured with a napkin wrapped in a wine bottle to avoid warming the wine due to hand temperature)
When pouring wine, the sommelier is used to holding the bottom of the wine bottle and turning the wine label up to show the wine to the guests, but we don’t have to do this in daily life.
If the wine is sealed with a cork, after opening the bottle, the owner should pour a little in his own glass to taste whether there is bad cork smell, if the taste is not pure, he should change another bottle.
1. Wines with lighter wines should be served first than wines with heavier wines;
2. Serve dry red wine and dry sweet wine first;
3. The younger wines are served first, and the older wines are served last;
4. For the same type of wine, the order of toasting is divided according to different years.
When pouring wine, first the chief guest and then other guests. Stand on the right side of each guest in turn and pour the wine one by one, and finally pour the wine for yourself. Due to the different specifications, objects, and national customs of the banquet, the order of pouring red wine should also be flexible and diverse.
If the guest of honor is a man, you should serve the male guest first, then the female guest, and finally pour red wine for the host to show the host’s respect for the guest.
If serving red wine for European and American guests, the female guest of honor should be served first, and then the male guest of honor.
Hold the lower 1/3 of the bottle with your palm. One hand is placed behind the back, the person is slightly inclined, after pouring 1/2 of the wine, slowly turn the bottle to stand up. Wipe the mouth of the bottle with a clean paper towel. If you pour sparkling wine, you can use your right hand to hold the glass at a slight angle, and pour the wine slowly along the wall of the glass to prevent the carbon dioxide in the wine from dissipating quickly. After pouring a glass of wine, you should turn the mouth of the bottle half a circle quickly and tilt it upwards to prevent the wine from the mouth of the bottle from dripping out of the glass.
The red wine is 1/3 into the glass, basically at the widest part of the wine glass;
Pour 2/3 of the white wine into the glass;
When the champagne is poured into the glass, it should be poured to 1/3 first. After the foam in the wine subsides, pour it into the glass until it is 70% full.
There is a saying in Chinese customs that “tea has seven wines and eight wines”, which also refers to how much liquid in the cup should be poured. For how to control the amount of wine poured, we can practice with water instead of wine.
As mentioned above, when the amount of wine poured into the wine glass is about to meet the requirement, the body is slightly away, and the bottom of the wine bottle is slightly rotated to quickly close the bottle to avoid dripping wine. This is a practice that makes perfect, so after a period of practice, it becomes easy to pour wine without dripping or leaking.
The bottles of high-end red wine are collected and collected, because some wine labels are simply works of art. In order to avoid the “flowing” wine label of the wine, the correct way to pour the wine is to make the front of the wine label face up and outward.
In addition, for old wine (over 8-10 years), there will be sawdust at the bottom of the bottle, even if the wine is three to five years old, there may be sawdust. Therefore, be careful when pouring wine. In addition to not shaking the wine bottle, when pouring to the end, you should also leave a little on the shoulder of the bottle. Turning the bottle upside down trying to drain the last drop is not correct.
Post time: Jan-29-2023