Alaska Airlines began pouring wine from a full-size bottle in coach after low survey scores for those little single-serving wine bottles.
Buying wine for the holiday season can be fiendishly complicated, as one has to balance the pressures of serving wine on its own or for a drinks party, or merely having something in the fridge when the neighbors pop round for a drink.
The cosy restaurant resembles an Alps chalet with wooden walls and tables, and stays true to its southeastern France namesake, serving red wine broth and raclette cheese fondue alongside Parma ham, duck, shrimp and roast potatoes.
As part of the celebration, one could have a picture taken with the former and current mayors (after you relinquished your wine glass, which I was reluctant to do, because it contained some excellent single malt I'd brought along in a flask, fearing, correctly, that Gracie Mansion, where the events was held, would be serving only wine).
How long you should decant a wine for before serving depends on the age and type of the wine.
But the dining room is now streamlined rather than dowdy, with large-scale contemporary art and dramatically lit wine racks serving as room dividers.
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Serving your own homemade wine to guests is a matter of pride, and the act of drinking it has been refined to an art form.
Starbucks, which recently made news by announcing a wine-serving pilot location, has jumped on board as one of the first retailers to accept the new form of payment.
He likes to begin the evening with a cocktail or glass of wine, sometimes serving it with a light snack of potato chips tossed with crunchy seaweed and sesame seeds and drizzled with soy sauce.
Certainly, very old wine should be decanted just before serving, as exposure to oxygen can cause it to lose its flavor quite quickly.
The Treasury Department, which regulates alcohol, said this past week that beer, wine and spirits companies can use labels that include serving size, servings per container, calories, carbohydrates, protein and fat per serving.
The industry has opposed the idea of defining serving size by fluid ounces of pure alcohol or as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor on the grounds that you may get more than 1.5 ounces of liquor in a cocktail depending on what else is in the drink and the accuracy of the bartender.
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