Your own personal sommelier and private chef, on-hand to create custom gourmet meals and wine pairings.
Wines can be ordered from the list, or sommelier Sandra de Barros will propose appropriate pairings.
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It helped him win the title of best sommelier in America from American Sommelier this year.
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The sommelier spotted Ntezo hand-polishing glasses and, as an afterthought, graciously poured him a taste.
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There are other less common methods, but we can save that information for the Master Sommelier exam.
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The bill for two couples came to 1, 151 euros before my handouts to le maitre and his sommelier.
Not for him the deep sommelier lists of Bordeaux and Burgundy, much as he might admire those vintages.
But maybe that's what the best wine retailers and sommelier have in common: They make you feel safe.
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But Mr. LaPratt said a sommelier shouldn't simply rattle off facts or dazzle his audience with his erudition.
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Matthew Conway, the restaurant's general manager and sommelier, gave the whiskey a whiff.
She withdrew from the CIA and set down the path towards becoming a master sommelier, which was no easy feat.
At Megu, where I run the beverage program, recently we took on a new sommelier and several new servers.
It was an interesting choice of words, since many people say they don't feel comfortable dealing with an officious sommelier.
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But aside from upper-body strength, what's required for a would-be sommelier today?
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The man responsible for the cellar, Geoff Kruth, is one of just 200 people in the world to hold the title Master Sommelier.
The owner is Thomas Cregan, formerly a sommelier at Chanterelle, which accounts for the excellent wine list and, presumably, the name of the place.
The assistant manager of the hotel turned to his head sommelier, who took another sip and nodded that it was, indeed, a bad bottle.
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All of this has paved the way for something unimaginable a decade ago: A black South African is now the country's finest young sommelier.
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Each drink is expertly made by baristas using top of the range coffee-making equipment, and sommelier-like waiters explain the notes of each variety to customers.
Ms. Goldberger, the sommelier at Fifth Floor restaurant, in San Francisco, told me she has resolved to drink "more Riesling and less Riesling" in 2013.
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According to Aldo Sohm, chef sommelier of Le Bernardin in New York, the second wine should build on or maintain the qualities of the first.
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Alexander LaPratt, a 30-year-old sommelier at DB Bistro Moderne in Midtown, another Boulud restaurant, spends at least an hour each day studying complete with flash cards.
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The cuisine is as beautiful as it is delicious and sommelier Colin Thoreen is a great wingman, serving up interesting offerings (sherry, Sagrantino) with each dish.
Mr. Beckwith, who was born and raised in Manhattan, also served time as a sommelier at Babbo, having had his wine epiphany during a semester abroad in Florence.
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Scott Carney, master sommelier and director of wine education at the International Culinary Center based in New York, teaches students to visualize the scent notes found in wine.
What about intimate sommelier-led wine classes or cocktail mixology school?
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Was there a sommelier who could simplify things as well?
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Gauntner moved on to found Sake World, a sake sommelier certification group, and one of his first disciples took over the program at Shibuya, now with over 125 labels.
One Friday afternoon, as the waiters gathered for their weekly wine tasting, the hotel's sommelier opened a bottle, poured sips for the staff and asked what they thought of the vintage.
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The three-hour experience at Remy starts by meeting a sommelier in Remy's glass-walled 900-bottle wine room to pre-select wines for the evening and finishes with enough food to skip the next morning's breakfast buffet.
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