Let’s establish one thing up-front: It’s hard to create a good restaurant wine list. Sommeliers and beverage directors have to navigate subjective tastes, razor-thin profit margins and the Talmudic ...

Sit down at a high-end restaurant, and you’ll be greeted with reading material that, if you’re not ready, feels like homework: the wine list. True, many customers nowadays save themselves the work by ...

In an effort to engage their customers with wine, restaurants are trying friendlier, less intimidating ways to present their selections. By Eric Asimov The wine list at Smithereens, a new seafood ...

and then I'm gonna try to create a wine menu around that. A wine list isn't just about putting a list or a selection of great wines that pair with the food together. It has to be profitable. It has to ...

Size as needed (160 dpi, 25p x 33p), Philip Brooker color illustration of people looking at wine list as waiter with bottles stands in background. (The Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty ...

Wine, wine everywhere: bottles stacked on bottles, crowding every spare surface space, taking every inch of unclaimed countertop, packed like sardines between the tables, layered like a phalanx three ...

Today’s dinner table is a glorious spread of flavors, styles and inclinations that reflect increasingly discerning tastes along with better access to new and interesting products. But what do you ...

New customers often don't know where to start when it comes to buying or sampling wine. The world of wine can be confusing, expensive and intimidating at times, especially to those who know little ...

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