Interviews

Know Your Sommeliers: Meet Mia Van de Water, Master Sommelier, New York

"If you cannot captain a table - read the guests, build a relationship, guide them through the menu, make thoughtful suggestions to enhance what they are interested in - you have no business of trying to sell wine to them." - Mia Van de Water, Master Sommelier

Menu Intel

Best Wine By Glass Recommendations For Your Restaurants Are Here

Recommended by leading sommeliers, here are the top wines by the glass that you can put in your wine by the glass programs at your restaurants.

Menu Intel

How sommeliers can upscale their game

Ron Michaud, sommelier at Kali Restaurant talks about how sommeliers can upscale their game during the reopening of restaurants and bars

Operations and Management

Wine Promotions and Merchandising: Programs, Rollout, Profitability and Guest Satisfaction

With the right approach, customers are much more likely to upgrade to a higher-priced wine or order an additional bottle with every meal.

Operations and Management

What 2021 will look like for sommeliers - and how to be ready

For sommeliers, Covid-19 has re-written the rules of engagement. Here’s how to make sure you’re ready for the new world of wine

Interviews

Sommelier Essentials: Lager

Derided for many years, lager has made a big comeback. We find out from expert Mark Dredge what every sommelier should know about it

Interviews

In Conversation With Peter Marks MW

Peter Marks MW shares with us his wine story and experience in the wine education industry

Menu Intel

Boosting Your Guest Take With Sweet Wines (And Not Just For Dessert)

Listing sweet wines can make sound business sense, with dessert wines becoming a real money-spinner, at the same time as heightening overall guest satisfaction

Menu Intel

The Sommelier vs. The Smartphone

Managing Guests’ Expectations in the Digital Age.

Interviews

The Humble Sommelier - Jennifer Jespersen

When asked about her philosophy on wine pairing, her immediate response is “never compromise the integrity of the pairing based on the origin of a wine.”

Menu Intel

Discovering the Terroir of a New Wine Region

As the mighty Eel River winds throughout Humboldt County in Northern California, it experiences the nuances of microclimates from the mountains to the coast. Pockets of warmth, steep ridges, rocky slopes, cool valleys, and coastal fog provide unique vineyard areas to produce an array of Pinot Noir styles.

Suppliers Spotlight

Safriel House: Award Winning South African wines for your wine bars

Safriel House wines are part of the new wave of South African wineries; honoring the winemaking heritage of the Cape and at the same time, incorporating modern and innovative winemaking techniques.