{"id":3622,"date":"2019-12-17T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2019-12-17T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:10:37","slug":"ordering-wine-in-a-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/2019\/12\/17\/ordering-wine-in-a-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordering Wine in a  restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Challenge ?\u00a0 The Mystery ?\u00a0 The Fear ? or the Enjoyment!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ordering-wine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3623 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ordering-wine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of us have been here before.\u00a0 \u00a0We go to a restaurant and having a perfect dinner.\u00a0 \u00a0We know exactly what we what to order to eat, but now the tough part,\u00a0 how and what to order for the wine.\u00a0 \u00a0It gets even tougher when the people you are with are all having different types of food, which makes it difficult to select one wine to pair with everything.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, almost all restaurants had wine lists where you could order a bottle of wine.\u00a0 You could order different bottles of wine to pair with each meal someone would be having.\u00a0 But in today&#8217;s environment, drinking and driving dont and should never mix.\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/red-or-white.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3624 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/red-or-white-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/red-or-white-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/red-or-white-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/red-or-white.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>So that adds to the dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>We know we could always count on the wait staff to help select the correct wine.\u00a0 Red wine with meat, white wine with fish, full bodied wines with big meals, the right wine with meals with cheese, the right wine with spicy foods.\u00a0 \u00a0This can all get very<a href=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/confused.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3633 size-thumbnail alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/confused-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/confused-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/confused-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> confusing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But, that also depends on the restaurant you are going to and how much training does\u00a0the wait<a href=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/waiters-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3627 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/waiters-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/waiters-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/waiters-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> staff have.\u00a0 There are many restaurants that make sure that their staff are well versed in terms of food and wine pairing.\u00a0 \u00a0But that is not always the case.\u00a0 In most of the finer restaurants, they will have at least one person really trained on wines.\u00a0 They may not be sommeliers, but they can provide you with good choices when it comes to your<br \/>\nwine selection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, today in most restaurants, wines can be ordered by the glass.\u00a0 This eliminates the complexity and challenge in order the correct wine for all the people eating dinner.\u00a0 People can now select the wine that they feel is best paired with their meal, or more importantly the wine that they really like the <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">most. <a href=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/by-the-glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3628 size-thumbnail alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/by-the-glass-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/by-the-glass-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/by-the-glass-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While I love wines and I love pairing them with food.\u00a0 The most important aspect for everyone is to select the wine that fits them perfectly, so that they can enjoy the meal.\u00a0 After all, those are the ingredients for a <strong>perfect evening!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/perfect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3634 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/perfect.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Challenge ?\u00a0 The Mystery ?\u00a0 The Fear ? or the Enjoyment!! All of us have been here before.\u00a0 \u00a0We go to a restaurant and having a perfect dinner.\u00a0 \u00a0We know exactly what we what to order to eat, but now the tough part,\u00a0 how and what to order for the wine.\u00a0 \u00a0It gets even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/2019\/12\/17\/ordering-wine-in-a-restaurant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ordering Wine in a  restaurant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-wine"],"views":139,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}