Posts Tagged ‘slate’

Wine pouring (cont.)

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

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I’m revisiting this topic having previously discussed it in an April post given a recent spat of articles.

The first is written by Christopher Hitchens in Slate who takes issue with waiters pouring wine from a bottle he ordered for reasons he states in his piece (interrupting a story, pouring so that customers will feel obligated to order another bottle, etc.). And more recently, Calgary sommelier Aaron Plamondon, who refutes Hitchens piece and “defends the service industry”. (more…)