The correct posture for pouring red wine

Drinking red wine is a very learned thing. Generally speaking, drinking red wine requires the use of special high-heeled glasses, and there are also certain rules for pouring and drinking the wine. If people are not familiar with these precautions when drinking red wine, it will affect their views of themselves to a certain extent, making elegant things become very ordinary. So, what is the correct way to pour red wine?

1. Preparation

Prepare clean paper towels or napkins in advance to wipe the bottle mouth, especially in crowded occasions. When pouring wine, sommeliers are accustomed to holding the bottom of the bottle with the label facing upwards so as to show the wine to the guests. However, we don't need to do this in our daily lives.

2. Order of pouring red wine

When pouring wine, you should first pour some for the host to taste. After the host expresses satisfaction, then pour red wine to the guests in turn starting from the host's right (ladies and the elderly first). When pouring wine, every guest should be able to see the wine label. However, due to the different specifications, objects, and national customs of banquets, the order of pouring red wine should also be flexible and diverse. When entertaining guests from Asia, if the guest of honor is a man, the male guest's seat should be filled first, then the female guest's seat, and finally the host should be poured red wine to show the host's respect for the guests. When pouring red wine for European and American guests, you should pour it for the female guest of honor first, and then for the male guest of honor.

Before pouring red wine, wipe the mouth of the bottle with a clean towel. The wine bottle taken out of the ice bucket should be wiped clean with a towel and then wrapped. For some wines that need to be kept at a lower temperature, they must be poured from the bottle with a napkin wrapped around it to prevent the wine from warming up due to hand warmth.

The method is: fold a 50x50 cm square napkin into six to form a strip, place the bottom of the chilled wine bottle in the middle of the strip of napkin, fold up the two sides of the napkin in equal parts, hold the cloth covering the wine bottle in your hands, and make sure that all the trademarks on the wine bottle are exposed so that the guests can confirm them. When pouring ordinary wine, hold a napkin folded into a small square in your left hand and the bottle in your right hand to serve red wine. When pouring red wine, a cloth and a napkin are used to prevent water droplets from forming on the outside of the bottle after it is chilled, and to prevent liquid from the bottle mouth from splashing onto the guests. When using a wine basket, a piece of cloth of appropriate size should be placed under the neck of the bottle to prevent dripping when pouring red wine.

3. When to pour red wine

One is pouring red wine before the banquet. If customers order white wine, red wine or beer, pour the red wine and white wine into each guest's glass within five minutes before the banquet begins (after pouring the above two kinds of wine, invite the guests to take their seats, and after the guests are seated, pour beer in turn). Another refers to pouring red wine during a banquet. If chilled or heated wine is used, it should be poured into the guests' glasses one by one after the banquet begins and before the first hot dish is served. When pouring red wine during a banquet, it is necessary to refill it for the guests before and after they toast, after each new dish is served, and also when the wine in the guest's glass is less than half full. When guests toast each other, the wine should be refilled promptly according to the guest's toast.

4. Standards for pouring red wine

For red wine, pour 1/3 into the glass; for white wine, pour 2/3 into the glass; for brandy, pour one pour (1/2) into the glass; for champagne, pour 1/3 into the glass first, wait for the foam in the wine to subside, then continue to pour until the glass is 70% full; for ice water, generally add an appropriate amount of ice cubes to half a cup of water. If no ice cubes are added, the glass should be filled to 3/4.

5. How to pour red wine

There are two basic ways to pour red wine: one is called table pouring, and the other is called serving. Table pouring means that the customer's wine glass is placed on the dining table, and the waiter holds the bottle and pours red wine into the glass. When pouring ordinary wine, the bottle mouth should be about 2 cm away from the cup mouth; when pouring sparkling wine or chilled wine, the two should be about 5 cm apart. In short, no matter what kind of wine you pour, the mouth of the bottle should not touch the mouth of the cup, so as not to affect hygiene and make noise. The wine glass is always placed on the right side of the guest, so the wine is also poured from the right side of the guest. Wine should be poured in front of the guests. At a particularly high-end banquet, if a guest wants a glass of aged red wine, the waiter should hold the glass in his left hand and slowly pour the wine into the glass. The waiter should not let the guest hold the glass or pour wine into a glass with dishes next to it.

6. Posture of pouring red wine

Before pouring red wine, wipe the bottle mouth with a clean towel. The wine bottle taken out of the ice bucket should be wiped clean with a towel and then wrapped. For some wines that need to be kept at a lower temperature, they must be poured from the bottle with a napkin wrapped around it to prevent the wine from warming up due to hand warmth.

7. Tips for not leaking any wine

When the required amount of wine is poured into the glass, move your body slightly away, slightly rotate the bottom of the bottle, and quickly close the bottle to avoid dripping. This is also an action that requires practice, so after a period of practice, pouring red wine without spilling a drop will become easy.