10 Things a Gentleman NEVER Does When Someone Pours Him a Glass of Wine

My three wine books (The Shelf, The Table and The Keeper), $27 for all three: https://marksolberg.com Someone opens a bottle and tips it toward you. What you do in the next minute tells them more than anything you know about wine. I ran a wine shop in Portland for almost thirty years, and these are the ten small mistakes I watched good people make, counted down from a slip of the hand to the one that decides whether you get poured for again. Along the way: why lifting your glass to the bottle causes more spills than it prevents, what one wine society member found when he actually tested the hand-warming rule, how much bigger wine glasses have grown since the 1700s, and the exact words to use when the bottle in front of you is corked. Tell me in the comments: who poured you a glass you still remember, and what was in it? #wine #wineetiquette #winetips