In all the best Pinot Gris, whether produced as an Alsatian dessert wine or a crisp table wine from the foothills of the Italian Alps, the grape itself has the mojo to be the star.
The word sommelier (pronounced some-el-YAY) is derived from the Vulgar Latin word for "beast of burden, " which may seem at odds with the image of a well-dressed man (or woman) proffering a wine list to a table of guests.
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For the Wiesenmaier family, sitting around a long, fold-down picnic table, drinking wine from plastic cups and preparing for a clambake of lobster tails and slow-roasted potatoes cooked by two chefs on an enormous outdoor grill, this pristine corner of the US eastern seaboard has tonight been transformed into America's most exclusive restaurant.
Select your meal from the huge variety of seafood inside the market, grab a bottle of wine and an outdoor table and prepare to guard your chips.
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Placing a wine glass with a tag similar to a bar code on the table, for example, could call up details about the wine and its vineyard.
At last week's Acker wine auction, he sat at a central table at the Tribeca Grill in downtown Manhattan, raising his paddle frequently, casually, just a little flip of the wrist, confident that his bid would be registered, sometimes lowering it with a shrug when he thought the price had gone too high and sometimes dueling on a particularly choice lot until he won.
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It also boasts a suspended glass wine loft, an elevated chef's table with views of both the kitchen and Vegas, and an intimate bar.
"Wine belongs on the table, not on a pedestal or in an ivory tower, " says Joel Peterson, general manager of Ravenswood Winery, part of Constellation Wines.
Wine promoter Baudouin Havaux staged Cabernet tastings at a table hanging over the Formula One racetrack of the Belgian Grand Prix in 2007 to gin up publicity.
One of the Douro Boys, a group of winemakers that drove this change, welcomes visitors for table wine tastings at Quinta do Crasto.
The house was filled with impromptu dinner parties, bridge games, storytelling sessions over the sticky kitchen table, on which there always sat a large bottle of red wine.
Soon, I'd crashed the Valdiserra family table for dessert, as Franco continued pushing everything from chocolates to a sweet Sicilian dessert wine.
But you're now in the mood to hang out and taste wines with your friends, and that's the catalyst to sit at the table and order a bottle from Willamette or Burgundy and have some food that complements the wine.
User-friendly wine brands, including a couple of these, represented nine of the ten top-selling new table wines introduced last year, says Information Resources Inc.
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