1. At the beginning of the banquet, the waiter will start to pour the wine, and the waiter will usually pour the wine in sequence. At this time, the diners should put the wine glasses on the table and wait for the waiter to pour them. If you don't want the waiter to pour you wine, then gently touch the edge of the glass with your fingertips, so the waiter will know that you don't want it.
2. Correct holding posture: In order to prevent the temperature of the hand from increasing the wine temperature in the glass and affecting the flavor of the wine, the correct holding posture of the glass is to gently hold the foot of the glass with three fingers, that is, use the thumb, middle finger and forefinger to gently hold the foot of the glass, and put the little finger on the bottom of the glass to fix it.
3. You should never drink by sucking while drinking. The correct drinking posture should be to tilt the glass, just like putting the wine on your tongue. When tasting wine, you can gently shake the glass to let the wine contact with the air to increase the mellow taste of the wine, but don't shake the glass violently.
4. When drinking, you should avoid the following rude behaviors: gulping down the wine when not toasting, drinking while holding a glass, looking at people through the glass while drinking, and printing lipstick on the side of the glass.
Etiquette culture of drinking in western food
In western food etiquette, wine is very important to accompany dishes, and a set of matching rules are summarized in long-term dietary practice: generally, all kinds of steaks or roast beef are most suitable for choosing dry red wine; Mutton dishes, such as lamb chop and roast mutton, are suitable for light red wine; Pork, such as ham and barbecue, is suitable for champagne and sweet white wine; Poultry dishes should choose red wine and sweet white wine; Game dishes with light meat color and delicious taste are suitable for using light red wine. Generally speaking, dishes with light taste are matched with wines with elegant fragrance and light color, and dark meat and poultry dishes are matched with wines with rich flavor.
according to the different dining links of western food, specifically speaking, drinking in western food can be divided into four types: pre-dinner wine, in-meal wine, dessert wine and after-dinner wine.
Pre-dinner wine, as the name implies, is the wine that is drunk before western food! Many western guests like to drink a glass of wine with appetizing function before eating. The biggest feature of this kind of wine is its fragrant smell and stimulating appetite. The wine usually contains less sugar, and its taste is sour or dry. Even a sweet pre-dinner cocktail is not very sweet and greasy.
Drinks during meals are usually dry red and white. Generally, cold dishes or seafood are served with dry white; Meat is served with dry red. If you are not very proficient in the law of wine selection in western food and don't want to lose your manners, it doesn't matter, you can choose champagne, because champagne can be matched with any kind of dishes when it is matched with western food.
Sweet food is not only an important but also an indispensable part of western food. When using sweet food, western food is accompanied by relative sweet wine. Sweet wine is wine made from wine as the main raw material. Because the wine is blended with raw materials such as brandy or edible alcohol, it belongs to mixed wine. The alcohol content of the base wine of this kind of wine is very low, and it has a certain fruit juice taste and sweetness.