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Wine and Food Pairing at Restaurant Daniel with Sommelier Raj Vaidya and Executive Chef Jean-Francois Bruel

by Marisa D'Vari26 August 2009

Wine & Food Pairing at Restaurant Daniel with Sommelier Raj Vaidya and Executive Chef Jean-Francois Bruel Part 1 If the oldest question in the world is “what’s for dinner,” consider that the second oldest question may very well be “what…

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Pairing Chateau du Campuget Prestige Viognier at Cafe Boulud

by Marisa D'Vari8 August 2009
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… So did you ever wonder how wine got on a restaurant’s wine list? For many upper end restaurants, the wine list is one of the primary reasons customers come to dine at their establishment. Some very high end restaurants…

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Glam life of sommeliers

by Marisa D'Vari24 December 2007

When you visit a glam restaurant like Michael Mina in SF or Cru in NYC, it is very easy to see the sommelier in the glamorous surrounds and think, wow, what a great job! Here’s an article from the Guardian…

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Ordering wine in restaurants

by Marisa D'Vari23 December 2007

… so I’m reading this story that says that people order the second cheapest wines in restaurants so as not to look “cheap” in front of waiters or guests! The article suggests people do not know much about wine. Do…

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Attack of Robot Sommeliers

by Marisa D'Vari16 December 2007

… so I’m just reading this article about Robot Sommeliers and am curious if you think it’s a good idea. I mean, would you like a small Japanese robot to come to your table, take your order, and return with…

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Sommelier Switcheroo

by Marisa D'Vari28 November 2007

Okay, so the sommeliers reading this all know about the hassles of not having a wine in stock, or having the wrong year of the wine. Consumers, though, can’t understand why a wine is listed if it is not in…

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“Light as a negligee” wines …

by Marisa D'Vari24 August 2007

… okay, going out for a romantic dinner with a significant other is one thing. Yet imagine you are a woman executive offering the male client the courtesy of the wine list, as is done in many industries. So far,…

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Sommeliers: Generic Title?

by Marisa D'Vari8 August 2007

… so I’m cruising the Internet and somehow catch sight of this intriguing post, in which a passenger on a cruise ship is bewildered by so many sommeliers on board. The passenger wonders if top sommeliers somehow won a free…

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Tipping Sommeliers

by Marisa D'Vari10 May 2007

Hi all, I’m writing a new article on tipping the sommeliers. Ask a sommelier or a server, they’ll say 20% on both wine and food. Ask a consumer, it’s across the board. What seems to be “typical” is tipping on…

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What to Drink with What You Eat

by Marisa D'Vari6 April 2007

Are you curious about what wine to order with your cheesecake? Intimidated by five-hundred page wine list at a top restaurant? Downright scared when the sommelier comes charging toward your table? Relax. In the book What to Drink with What…

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When servers snicker at your wine choice …

by Marisa D'Vari7 March 2007
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Actually reading this in print is quite disturbing, yet apparently it’s true: servers DO SNICKER when they silently disapprove of our choice in wine! Here’s a great case in point. In this Chicago Tribune link, a former Four Seasons Hotel…

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Just rec’d my Diploma from Court of Master Sommeliers!

by Marisa D'Vari6 March 2007
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So excited! Just twenty minutes ago received my Level one diploma from the Court of Master Sommeliers! Two very intense days of blind tasting with a room of very remarkable peers — sommeliers and wine directors have flown across the…

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“Sir, that’s not a Sauvignon Blanc. Sancerre is a grape.”

by Marisa D'Vari5 February 2007
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The February issue of Wine Enthusiast has a great story by Adam Strum on the scarcity of qualified sommeliers. In the article, Strum explains he was dining in a good restaurant and … “I discovered a Sancerre I thought would…

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