Is there any etiquette or stress about drinking red wine?

In our daily life, it is inevitable to attend meetings to entertain customers, parties and other occasions where we need to drink red wine. It is extremely important to know some table manners of red wine at this time. Knowing wine etiquette can improve your personal image and show your understanding of wine. Secondly, you can avoid gaffes on the wine table and embarrass your customers/friends. Let's talk about the etiquette on the red wine table at Aoyu Winery.

1, glass/pour wine

First of all, in some professional or high-end occasions, you must use a special goblet/wine glass for red wine! Never just find a plastic cup to replace it for convenience. This will not only make you look unprofessional, but also make your customers/guests feel unimportant.

Second, pour the wine! Is it more important to pour red wine for guests or to pour red wine yourself? Red wine (red wine) 1/3 is poured into the glass, white wine 1/4 is poured into the glass, champagne (tulip-shaped) glass is used for sparkling wine, 1/2 is poured into the glass. Wine/red wine is different from other wines. Drinking red wine requires sober-up and moderate oxidation! Moreover, wine needs to be carefully tasted, and it is not advisable to pour too much. Don't fill it all at once like beer and white wine. This will not only make you laugh, but also embarrass the guests.

2. Don't shake the glass hard.

Many people think that they should shake their glasses before drinking red wine, which is not only handsome, but also professional. Therefore, many people shake their glasses unconsciously!

In fact, shaking the glass before drinking red wine can make the red wine moderately oxidized, let the aroma of red wine emanate, and make it easier for the tasters to taste the taste of red wine. However, shaking the glass is also skillful. Don't shake it hard. First, your elbow is easy to touch the person next to you. Second, you can easily shake the wine out of your glass. If you spill it on your own clothes or someone else's clothes, it will be bad.

When shaking the glass, just hold the goblet column in your hand and gently shake the glass with the strength of your wrist. Unfamiliar friends can practice feeling slowly on the table at home, and then shake it by hand.

Don't touch the belly with your palm.

At the dinner table, if you don't hold the cup correctly, it's a fool! When holding a wine glass, you just need to hold the post or holder of the goblet. Never hold the cup foot with two fingers and the cup belly with your palm, as many movies and advertisements do. This is not correct! The direct contact between the palm of your hand and the belly of the cup will affect the temperature of the wine, which is why you should drink red wine in a goblet.

4. When toasting and clinking glasses/clinking glasses.

In the banquet, clinking glasses and toasting are inevitable. When drinking beer and white wine, everyone is used to leaning forward and touching the edge of the cup. But drinking red wine in a goblet is different from clinking other wines. The edge of the goblet for drinking red wine is a very fragile place. The edges of the goblets collide with each other and are easily broken. Therefore, when toasting and clinking glasses, both sides should tilt the glasses to the right and touch each other with protruding bellies!

Don't add ice and lemon sprite to the wine.

Many friends, when drinking red wine, like to add ice cubes/Sprite cola to dilute the tannin taste in red wine and make it easier to eat/sweeter. In fact, this practice is not recommended. These ice/sprite cokes will affect the taste of red wine, and these carbonated drinks will promote the absorption of alcohol and make people more likely to get drunk. Moreover, in some specific wine tasting occasions, it is unprofessional to add sprite to red wine. If you don't like red wine with heavy tannins, you can order some red wine with light tannins and soft taste, such as white wine or softer sweet red wine (red wine).

6. Don't gulp down the toast.

I believe all the red wine glasses you see are 1/3 red wine, so you have to sip them carefully, because wine/red wine needs to be tasted slowly to appreciate its rich flavor. So when tasting red wine or toasting, don't drink as heroically as drinking beer or white wine! This is actually a very unprofessional behavior. Moreover, if a friend who loves red wine introduces you and invites you to taste his favorite red wine, you will drink it all at once, which will make him think that you don't understand red wine and are wasting his wine.

The above is the introduction of "red wine table manners" by Aoyu Winery!