• BigDiction@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is so dramatic. Wine tasting isn’t full pours. Tasting 5-6 wines is usually 1.5 - 2 glass equivalent. In California I see people drink it all way more than they pour or spit. You are definitely not getting kicked out for drinking wine you paid to try. I don’t even want to touch the braising/deglazing with alcohol part, but it’s also bullshit.

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      10 months ago

      The funniest fucking part about that commenter being so proud of their wine snobbery is that professional sommeliers can’t distinguish $15 wine from $1500 wine in double blind trials

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      10 months ago

      A lot of (particularly California) vineyards will just call their bar a “wine tasting” and charge by the glass. Couple years back I went to a similar setup for sake in Japan and it was awesome but there was almost no focus on even trying to understand the differences between the beverages and it was mostly a way to charge people by the flight.

      But for anything that is actually a tasting that would attract “wine snobs” rather than soccer moms: There is generally a big focus on “doing it right”. Partially because they are selling “the experience” but also because those vineyards/selections tend to be geared toward differentiable wines. So you aren’t going to have ten syrahs. You’ll have a merlot, a syrah, maybe a malbec, and so forth. And that lets people learn what kind of wine they actually like while ALSO knowing what bottles they want to buy from said vineyard/store/whatever.

      And if you start getting shitfaced at those? Your ass gets thrown out. Because you aren’t going to be in a position to buy a bottle and because you are “ruining the experience”… for the people who are probably going to buy two or three bottles each.