PROCEDURE
Take a bottle of red wine
- Take out from the fridge or wine cellar with care
- Ensure wine serving temperature is correct
- Dry white wine 10c / 50f
- Sweet white win 12.8c / 55f
- Slowly and carefully
Bring the wine to the guest table
- Place a bottle of the wine in an ice bucket fill with ice and water 3/4 full
- Place a clean white napkin on the top of wine bucket
- Hold the wine stand with the ice bucket and then carry it to the table
Take out the bottle of white wine form the ice bucket
- Using the service napkin or white napkin
- To wipe and drying the bottle of white wine
- Place the bottle of white wine on the napkin
- Place half folded napkin on palm of left hand
Check Napkins
- Napkin must be clean and no torn
- Napkin must be well pressed
Hold the white wine bottle
- Stand bottle with left palm
- Ensure it rest firmly on the palm
- Do not obstruct / cover the label
- Hold tip of napkin and neck of bottle
- Hold with your right hand
- Place bottle neck in between thumb and index finger
Present the bottle of white wine for approval
- Show label to guest [ host ]
- Read the name of the wine and vintage to the guest
- " Excuse Me Sir / Madam, Here is your wine order is Chablis 2002, everything is correct?"
Put back the bottle into the bucket
- Slowly and carefully
Open wine / Waiter's Friends
- Open the blade of the wine opener
- Not rusty
- It should be sharp and clean
Place knife on foil
- About 0.5cm down the bottle rim
- Knife positioned horizontally to label
Cut foil
- Clockwise completely and anticlockwise again
- Do not turn the bottle
Remove the foil
- Remove the cut foil from the bottle
- Gently and slowly
- Ensure the foil is cut properly
- Place the foil into the ice bucket or in your pocket
Wipe the top of the bottle
- Rim of the bottle and surroundings with service napkin
- To remove mold
How to open wine / corkscrew
- With right hand
- Support and grip the opener
- Hold the wine opener between thumb and index finger
Hold the bottle neck
- with left hand
- Hold back of bottle neck firmly
Insert corkscrew
- One complete turn before inserting
- With right hand, applying force gently
- Do not push
Turn Corkscrew
- With right hand into bottle
- Gently and slowly
- Do not force or push down
- Do not turn the bottle
- Stop when the last spiral completely enters the cork
- Grip the bottle neck close to rim for support
Ease Cork Upwards
- Slowly and gently
- Hold the neck firmly
- Lift back corkscrew upwards
- Stop when corkscrew is 3/4 out of bottle
Check with the Video Practice
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