When enjoying western food, it is inevitable that you sometimes need to socialize and drink some wine. So what etiquette common sense should you pay attention to when drinking western food? I'll take you to get to know it.

Common sense of drinking etiquette in western food

(1) wine selection

When ordering wine in a high-end restaurant, there will usually be a sommelier present to help you choose the most suitable wine. In addition, sommeliers can successfully help you choose the best wine to go with your food. If you take their professional advice, you will undoubtedly enjoy a wonderful experience of food and wine. Because famous high-end restaurants usually have a comprehensive wine list, covering all kinds of different years of the same wine, with information exceeding 100 pages. Such a list is laborious and annoying. In this case, the help of the sommelier is essential.

(2) wine tasting

Once the host (or anyone who advocates ordering wine) has finished ordering wine, the sommelier will choose the appropriate glassware and put it on the dining table with the knife on the right side of your seat. Then they will take the wine to the sommelier to make sure it is wrong.

After confirmation, the sommelier will pull out the cork and give the drinker a sip of wine. This is not to let the wine drinker taste whether he likes the wine or not, but to check the state of the wine and the taste of the wine without defects.

Step 3 drink

After the wine tasting is satisfactory, the sommelier can pour the wine around the table, and the guest should pour the wine before the host. Usually, only 1/3 wine is poured into the glass, which is convenient for guests to shake the glass without any overflow and smell the aroma of the wine completely.

In high-end restaurants, sommeliers and waiters will fill your glass when you eat, so try to avoid filling it yourself. If you find that the cup is empty, you can inform the responsible staff to remind them to refill it. Of course, for casual restaurants and bars, you can have a refill at will.

Western food pour glass

1, red wine 1/3, white wine 1/2, sparkling wine (such as champagne) 3/4.

2. Turn the wine bottle at the end of pouring, so as to prevent excess wine from flowing down from the bottle mouth.

3. When clinking glasses with ladies, look directly at each other. According to an old French legend, if you don't look directly at each other, you won't have good luck for the next seven years. Of course, it is also necessary to clink glasses with everyone present ~

If someone raises a glass to you (for example, at weddings, birthday parties, etc.). ), you don't have to drink, just smile and raise your glass.

5. When holding the glass, remember to hold the neck of the glass (as shown on the left). Many people may think that this is only necessary when drinking white wine, so as to avoid the temperature rise of the wine. But in fact, experts suggest that it should be the same when drinking red wine, so as to appreciate the pure luster of red wine and avoid leaving fingerprints on the glass and affecting the appearance.

6. This is a note for western food: at your own dining table, always pay attention to the fact that the red wine glass must be placed on the right side of the water glass.

7. When you have red wine in your mouth, you should look at your glass politely instead of facing the person you are talking to.

As the host of the meeting, you should always pay attention to whether there is any wine in the guest's cup.

Some etiquette rules when drinking:

1. Westerners generally don't advise alcohol, and whether to drink or not often depends on personal emotions. This is just the opposite of China people's drinking habits. Therefore, at the western food table, try not to persuade wine; Even if you persuade people to drink, stop. It is very humiliating to drink at the dinner table.

2. I don't know how to drink, and I don't have to force it. If you actively and politely explain the reasons, you will generally get the understanding of the host. Sometimes, for the sake of banquet etiquette, you can ask the waiter to pour a little wine into your cup, but only touch the rim of the cup with your lips. No, no one comes to add wine.

It is impolite to pour wine in western food. At most, it is only eight full, sometimes less. If the wine overflows when pouring. The order of pouring wine is first host, then guest, and then other guests.

4. Avoid Chinese-style cheers when eating western food and drinking. The correct way is to raise the glass before drinking, appreciate its color carefully, then smell it with your nose close to the glass, and finally take a sip and savor it.

Toast should be proposed by the host. Please raise your glasses together and say some blessings to the people present. Don't forget anyone. It is generally inappropriate for guests to propose a toast to their hosts, so as not to usurp the host's role; Women shouldn't propose a toast to men either.

If there are many guests toasting, there is no need to clink glasses one by one. Just show your eyes when you raise your glass.

7. Toast foreign guests, don't cross the toast, otherwise it will cross and violate the taboos of westerners.

8. Making wine, making noise and guessing fists at the dinner table are rude and uncivilized behaviors in the eyes of westerners, and must be resolutely put an end to them.

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