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Randy R wrote:Agreed, Robin, although I recall the verb aviner, ("aveenay") and had learned it with a sommelier friend who did this when one glass had a different wine in it first. If tasting different wines in one glass, the glass was first emptied, then avinée, then the regular pour of the next wine. Before anyone complains about wasting wine, you wouldn't do this with an expensive wine since you'd have a clean glass for it, right?Robin Garr wrote: I can't recall ever seeing it done in a restaurant setting in Italy or France, even at some mighty fancy culinary temples.
Bob Ross wrote:What's the purpose of "priming" a wine glass?
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Nathan Smyth wrote:Bob Ross wrote:What's the purpose of "priming" a wine glass?
Some people believe that it helps to get the soap stains out of the glass.
[Soap stains in a wine glass are effectively the same thing as TCA.]
Jenise wrote:Nathan Smyth wrote:Bob Ross wrote:What's the purpose of "priming" a wine glass?
Some people believe that it helps to get the soap stains out of the glass.
[Soap stains in a wine glass are effectively the same thing as TCA.]
I think we all understand that, but if you don't pour the primer wine out, then you've accomplished nothing--right?
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Thomas wrote:Jenise wrote:Nathan Smyth wrote:
Right. It's theater at Babbo.
Nathan Smyth wrote:
[Soap stains in a wine glass are effectively the same thing as TCA.]
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Mark Lipton wrote:Nathan Smyth wrote:
[Soap stains in a wine glass are effectively the same thing as TCA.]
Err... Nathan, is this an example of "proof by assertion"? Soap is not at all related chemically to TCA, nor have I ever detected in soap any sensory resemblance to TCA, so in what sense are they "effectively the same thing"?
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Bob Ross wrote:I agree on all your points, Diane, but I don't remember seeing the priming before. We've eaten there at least six times in the last 12 months, the most recent before a week ago in March.
Could they have started priming so recently?
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