Restaurant Servers’ Damn Guide to Serving Wine
Yea, this is for the readers who work in a restaurant and have had a question about proper wine service. It is definitely one of the service issues that can be pushed aside when a manager or trainer does not have a complete grasp on it themselves, or might concentrate the training mostly on food service and forget about beverage service.
The worst case scenario is a new server with out much wine training or knowledge, just getting the bottle that was ordered and giving it the old college try at the table. The bottle could go between the legs for leverage, no taste is poured for the host, and the cork ends up split in half and quickly hid in the servers’ pocket out of embarrassment. This could go unnoticed by the restaurant manager at a busy establishment, and the server just crosses their fingers that no more smucks order wine by the bottle. Hell, not presenting the wine list can take care of that sometimes.
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You might not have had the chance, or even thought about looking to the beautiful Pacific Northwest for your last purchase of wine. Well it is understandable. If you are not from the area you might not know that there are 153 wineries in Oregon producing quality wine, and trying to get the word out to you and the rest of the world. Many wine writers have talked about “Discovering the wines of Oregon”. Well maybe we are still busy discovering the wines of Australia, Chile, New Zealand, Spain, New York and South Africa. That’s all fine and well, just drop all of them for now and lets look at Pinot Noir country. (o.k. Chard country too)
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The fact that the cover is a ghastly shade of green should not deter you from buying this admirable beginners’ guide. As with all Oz Clarke’s books the reader is treated to the most helpful content, and the majority of it is easy to follow. The only question I would raise concerns its $20 price, which seems a little high for the size and presentation.
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