But maybe that's what the best wine retailers and sommelier have in common: They make you feel safe.
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Zeynep designed it and it has a proper wine list (the French sommelier came over and quietly explained, in grieved tones, how hard it was to get decent foreign wine because of the Islamic-inspired alcohol taxes).
What about intimate sommelier-led wine classes or cocktail mixology school?
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Alongside, the Concept Store serves as an 21st century market of the intriguing, fun and eclectic, including rare books, artisan teas, "quirky gizmos and gadgets" and a serve-yourself wine bar with its own sommelier.
S., the resident director of wine education and a master sommelier, who came bounding into the lounge one evening with a wire basket of empty bottles (from an outdoor tasting) and a waiter's corkscrew wagging from his back pocket.
Mr. Goldstein who has educated tens of thousands of sommeliers over the years, by his own estimation believes that sommeliers are to blame for the overemphasis on overly exact wine-and-food pairing: "The modern-day sommelier feels very strongly about you having the right wine with the right food they become quite draconian, " he said during a phone call last week.
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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.
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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But Guernio Melis, a native Sardinian based in New York who is a wine buyer at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and a sommelier at Orso, told me he didn't feature Vermentino because it was cheap.
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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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At the time, he said, the best restaurant in town was at the Hyatt Hotel, where he had worked as an assistant manager and sommelier (Mr. Stitt oversees the wine programs at all of his restaurants).
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To further mix things up, each grouping includes a wide number of wine options, and it is not unusual for the sommelier to offer two different people at the same table having the same dish two different wines.
The owner is Thomas Cregan, formerly a sommelier at Chanterelle, which accounts for the excellent wine list and, presumably, the name of the place.
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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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.
Your own personal sommelier and private chef, on-hand to create custom gourmet meals and wine pairings.
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