Tip - Alan Richman's Tips for Ordering Wine in a Restaurant

If you're going on a date or having dinner with friends, you need to learn the art of prolonged pleasure. (And no, we do not mean that pleasure.) We mean: How do you make the drinking go on forever? Some guys go from red to white, then back to red, and lose their palates and their friends all at once. Others spend too much money on splashy bottles when they can't even taste what's inside. Our food-and-wine critic, who has endured long evenings good and bad, tells you how to go gently into the night
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