10 Wine Etiquette Mistakes a Gentleman NEVER Makes

My three wine books (The Shelf, The Table and The Keeper), $27 for all three: https://marksolberg.com Two hundred years ago, an English bishop kept dozing off at dinner with the port bottles piling up at his elbow. People still say his name when a bottle stops moving. I ran a wine shop in Portland for almost thirty years, and before that I worked a restaurant floor. These are ten wine mistakes I watched good men make, counted down from the ones people can smell on you to the ones they talk about after you've gone home. Along the way: why your wine glasses may be what tastes musty, how Moët is really pronounced, what the Bible says about saving the best bottle for last, where part of your server's tip goes when you leave the wine off it, and the old reply when someone asks, "Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?"