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So I met up with a pal earlier this afternoon for a bottle of wine at The Actress. Imagine our surprise when barman serves it with two glass tumblers! Am I missing something? Is there a new wine glass etiquette in SE22? When I politely asked barman for two 'appropriate' wine glasses his response was 'well, this is how they drink wine in France'. Hmm, really? I don't recall drinking from those last time I was in Paris. Perhaps if I was drinking in some old rural French village, dining on crusty bread and Brie it would have been acceptable.


Barman's alternative was two cider glasses which we declined so settled on Champagne glasses! :-S


Anyway, maybe I'm being a snob..but I do think the majority of wine drinkers like their vino in a proper glass and they should have at least had a couple out the back!


Rant over..I'm off to pour a glass of Hermitage 2003 into a mahoosive goldfish bowl.


Sante!

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Zut alors. This has been covered many times before on the forum.


Suffice to say that they do drink wine out of tumblers in Parisian bistros, just as they drink cava out of tumblers in Barcelona. And if you think Paris goblets would be more "appropriate" (i.e. somehow better for serving wine, rather than simply meeting your misguided aesthetic sensibilities) then your snobbery is compounded by ignorance.


Case closed.


Next.

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I don't think it's a lame gimmick. Is a pub, not a fancy resto.


Depending who my guests are for dinner, I often serve wine in tumblers - less likely to get knocked over - I've lost many a crystal wine glass to a cack-handed piss-head, so I now save the Riedel for when it's less likely to get smashed. I have no problem with a pub doing likewise - and the very fine, award-winning Anchor & Hope on the cut do exactly that:


Yes, we have been ridiculed for our tumblers but I'm not changing them, there are just too many breakages. The wine list would have to be more expensive if we did, and as I said, this is not what we're about." Fair point. I can do wine in tumblers (not). Next topic, wine glasses and how I hate the Paris Goblet.
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That's not quite a full picture of the H&A wine glass policy though:


"Though to be fair, you only get a tumbler if you ask for one of the wines offered by the glass. Once you move off these, and you go up a price notch, you get proper stemware"


So the policy is cheap wine = cheap glass, which seems most reasonable.


Is this the same at The Actress, or is it tumblers all round?

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Anyway, forget about wine glass snobbery.. what about tumbler snobbery?


If you're going to serve tumblers you should be serving properly chilled small measures in 22cl Duralex glasses, preferably Picardie (but Provence would be acceptable), rather than a glass of tepid white, served in an oversized style-free tumbler - as was dished-up on our last visit.

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jumpinjackflash Wrote:

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> bore off Miss Self-Righteous....damn right wine

> tastes better in a 'goblet'..but obviously you

> know far more about wine etiquette than all the

> world's Sommeliers.


No. Just more than you. Apparently.



Edited to add the "apparently". Don't want to appear rude!

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