What are some good wines. I want to start serving to clients
What are some good wines. I want to start serving to clients
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Ah, just pour 'em some Kool-Aide.![]()
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Ruffino Chianti Classico.





Best investment ever for a companion that loves to offer wine or champers- a Costco card.
(Some areas have large corporate booze stores. There's one 100 miles from me that had comparable pricing to Costco with a similar selection.)
BTW Smith's supermarket has decent prices on liquor compared to other chain stores.
Cakebread Cellars for good whites and reds
Storybook Cellars for good whites
Both Napa wines.





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Not ashamed to say I bought the Bota Box Shiraz last weekend at my sister's house. She likes red, I like white so Shiraz is a nice compromise. 3.5 liters for $20.00
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It is a "red" but there are several Rose versions as well and the brand I mentioned is a red that white wine drinkers could appreciate.
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This is going to heavily depend on your area and what your local liquor and grocery stores carry. Stuff that's "commercially produced" and everywhere is going to be cheap stuff like Barefoot wines.
Do you have any local wineries? Go for some tastings and pick up bottles of your favorites. It's always fun to serve something local and talking about the winery (comparing notes if they've been there or telling them about it if they haven't) is good for conversation.
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Ok I am a sucker for champagne. Like I love the stuff but I absolutely cannot afford it. I used to buy prosecco instead but I recently learned this amazing little trick though:
BUY CREMANT instead of Champagne!
Cremant is a sparkling wine made using the same techniques as champagne, mostly from nearby regions to champagne with slightly less fizz. The minerality in the soil produces a very similar taste to champagne as well at a much more attractive price point. I usually get a bottle of Cremant de Bourgogne for like 20$ (even got it for 14$ once) and serve it to myself with brie, french bread and some strawberries.
As far as reds go, when serving to guests steer clear of anything super dry unless they have already told you they are fond of it lots of people are sensitive to the tannins. A Pinot Noir can be a really good half-dry. A german Dornfelder is also a good half-dry red.
Whites: I much prefer a dry Muller-Thurgau german white since you can almost taste the green leaves in the sun. Riesling is fantastic for sweet whites.





As a wino lol Id say....its best to ask him what he likes. Like, I am a red wine drinker, and I like extremely dry wines. I could tolerate a Shiraz or a Pinot Noir to be polite if thats what someone offered me, but it would not be my first, or even second choice. I also do not at all like the majority of white wines...but guys have brought Chardonnay thinking it was a safe choice. I cant stand ChardonnayChampagne is good, but not at all if its sweet, it has to be very, very dry. And even then...I get tipsy very quickly off champagne, so its not something I like to drink on a date unless its an overnight and I know the guy really well.
So yeah, if the guy is someone who genuinely likes wine, it will actually kinda be a put off to give him a wine that he doesnt like at all. On the flip, if hes not much of a wine drinker, you can give him pretty much anything cause hes not going to drink much of it. Either way, he'll end up taking one or two sips just to be polite and no matter how cheap the wine is, it was a waste of money. Unless of course you really like the wine and then...more for you after the date! LOL
just getting a bottle of wine isnt enough...your selection makes a *huge* difference if the guy is a connoisseur and it will reflect on you what wine you chose to bring.. While I appreicate it if a guy brings wine, I def can tell if he actually likes wine himself or is totally clueless and just trying to be fancy from what he selects. As a provider, its better to not bring any wine at all than give the impression you have no idea what youre doing. So yeah...just ask him what he likes.
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I also cannot stand Chardonnay! And all of this makes an excellent point - you never know what an individual will like unless you ask, and even the "safe" choices (like Chardonnay) might be despised by someone. If you're doing incall, it's not a bad idea to have a few bottles on hand, because I have had clients show up and ask if I have any wine when I offer them something to drink. And at that point, they clearly don't care too much because otherwise they would have brought it up before arriving. But if you're going to an outcall, your client should be providing the beverage anyway, not asking you to show up smuggling a bottle of vino.
Don't try to win over the haters. You are not the Jerk Whisperer.
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.





So true..the only times Ive ever provided wine was incall, but incall or outall...90% of the time the guy brought the wine, most they'll ask me for is to have wine glasses for us. Now, I do have one guy who is soooo cool! He actually works for a wine distributer and often travels to Europe to visit the vineyards there. I went to see him and after all the talk of wine he said he would open up a bottle from a company he just started distributing for that he thinks I would love. OH MAN it was absolutely amaaaaazing!! I wanted to write down the name of it and he started cracking up so hard...told me I was welcome to and no offense, but he cannot see me ordering a $xxx bottle of wine, no matter how much I liked it. I thought he was kidding.. But when I got home and looked it up..sure enough, it was hands down the most expensive wine Id ever had.
But on that note, and he totally agreed with me on this, there are some cheap bottles of wine that are very good and not at all offensive to offer to someone...and some expensive wines that are total crap. Then on top of that, there are so many ways somoenes preferences can lean...red, white, dry, sweet, tannin levels etc etc.. So yeah, its always always good to ask to make sure.
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