Our mission this week was to find 10 rules of wine etiquette, whether it be how to drink it, how to present it, how to store it, how to order it? Here’s the list (as usual, with a little help from our social networking friends): 10. At a dinner party, if there is more than one type of wine (which there should be if guests have done the right thing), serve the lighter wine first. But in an informal environment, be sure to ask if [...]

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There’s nothing worse than a know-it-all, right? The problem with the wine industry is that it’s renowned for being full of them – people who use big words to make others feel inferior. But let’s not get carried away. The big words can help. They distinguish between the subtle flavours, aromas and texture of different wine types. And some of these so-called wine snobs do actually know what they’re talking about. So when does a “wine connoisseur” become a “wine wanker”, or as many would [...]

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