Professional Drinking
How To Drink At Work
Not confident dining and drinking in business situations?
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As a Certified Sommelier, with Advanced Certification from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust Jim is a business person with 30 years of professional drinking experience helping professionals navigate wine and spirits, while keeping it fun! Your answer is sure to be found in Jim’s blog.
Ordering Wine on a Date
While it’s not technically a professional drinking event, there are some similar tips you can keep in mind when it comes to ordering wine if you’re on a date. The first rule of drinking on a date is not to get hammered. It can happen easily - both of you are...
Wine Tasting
One of the great ways to expand your palate beyond a wine club is by tasting wine with friends. This is one of the ways Sommeliers grow their wine knowledge, they taste a broad diversity of wines – lots of grapes from lots of regions. You can pretty easily...
Wine Naming: Grapes or Places?
Yup, it’s confusing: sometimes a wine is named by the grape used to make it and sometimes it is named by the area that it is grown. Lots of time, there is no indication of the grape used in this second group - you are just somehow supposed to know. So how does...