Ordering wine in restaurants is easy with the right advisor
If you drink enough wine in restaurants you’ll eventually come across your first sommelier. Take a deep breath. Fear not. Think of him or her as the lifeguard in that big pool of wine, ready if you need rescue. And we all need that from time to time.
For the uninitiated, sommelier is a big, scary French word that roughly means, “No, you can’t have Merlot with sea bass,” although I’ll admit my translation skills are rusty.
Pronounced suh-muhl-YAY, (Pronounced “some liar”, if you are from the South!) in essence it means, “wine waiter.” You won’t find one at Applebee’s, which is sort of a shame because if ever there was a restaurant that required a lot of wine to get through dinner, that’s the place. When I was younger, I drank wine in restaurants for years before I knew sommeliers existed. Most restaurants in fact don’t have someone dedicated solely to wine; only the ones that take wine seriously do. Continue reading
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Wine service is one of those eternally giving topics to write about, like Astroturf. But I was a bit surprised to find 
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