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Nov 09 2005

Hot Date: Faking Your Way Through the Wine List

Published by pinot noir under Pinot Noir Wine

How to Impress the Ladies with Your Wine KnowledgeYou finally get the chance to take out just about the hottest girl you know in real life, and of course, you will take her somewhere nice. Unfortunately, nice usually means the waiter is going to hand you a wine list at some point. Girls go crazy for guys that know wine, and although you  could wax poetically about the virtues of a good IPA, you know diddily about grape juice. Here is a quick guide to faking it, ordering a bottle to impress, and most importantly, landing the second date.To begin, girls love bubbly. Start with sparkling wine. If you can splurge, get a bottle of Champagne, and by the way, if it’s from France, it’s Champagne - everyone else in the world has to call it “sparkling wine”. Some examples of good, mid-priced, fairly ubiquitous champanges are Moet and Chandon, Perrier-Jouet, and Vueve Clicquot. These can be had for between $40 and $60 a bottle. There are more expensive examples that are tasty, like Taittenger, but if you can find any of the above on a wine list, you will do just fine. However, if you are on a budget, order a glass or a “split”. That is a smaller bottle, containing about one and a half glasses. Try to find something from the French, or pick a higher-priced American or Australian version. If the glass or the split is less than ten dollars, you may want to skip this altogether. Cheap sparkling is better off in a mimosa.

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