I'm going to give you a tip from here to way beyond the Iron Curtain and you don't even have to thank me for it! It takes some getting used to, but I guarantee you it's a tight plan. Let me explain why…
FYI: this is of course also possible if you go out to dinner with your woman or your man. I wouldn't want you to look forward to renewal just so that you can try my tip…
Before I offer the solution, allow me to outline the problem. Yes, I once received sales training: you can only sell a solution if you have identified a problem. Or created one…
You go out to dinner with two and you are guaranteed not to choose the same. That's okay, it's a free world, but that doesn't make it any easier. And especially if you combine meat, fish and other options.
Slip soles as an appetizer for one, spicy scampi diabolo for the other, for example. You can combine both perfectly with beer, but a glass of wine?
As a main course steak au poivre and mussels in white wine. Tasty! Both! But worlds apart in terms of taste color.
Ok, you can order each wine by the glass and also a different aperitif and that can be nice, but why not take a look where the lines are and color outside them?
So, you play it cool, receive the wine list and browse it down to… aperitifs. There you see which bottle of sparkling wine fits the budget and you order that one with two glasses.
Before you choose and order the food because, thank you for your blind faith: it's always good!
Sparkling wine, whether it's a twenty-five euro Cava or a Champagne for one hundred and twenty-five euros, has the interesting property of rinsing your mouth without being overpowered by pronounced flavors.
Because that's what it's about: if the pepper sauce forms a layer in the mouth and you pour white wine over it, that tender taste will be destroyed and you might as well be drinking water. And the smooth flavors of fish, for example, are going to experience the same when you drink a sip of red wine. Completely fade.
But sparkling wine respects delicate and firm flavors. And the carbon dioxide clears the mouth for the next bite.
Sparkling wine is also a lot lighter than red wine and will less tire both your taste and your general condition. Not that you are allowed to drive your car after six glasses, but at least you will walk home a lot fresher than after six glasses of red wine!
And what about the fact that sparkling wine quickly becomes boring for certain people? Does he or she drive the car? Voilà, two problems solved…
In the other case: the fact that you drink a glass as an aperitif, a glass with the starter and a glass with the main course (you know by now that on average six glasses of wine are served from a bottle), then it must really be a big disappointment to get bored in the different combinations.
And if you don't choose an appetizer? Very well, maybe a dessert? Sparkling wine goes… perfectly with it!
Tight budget, no starter or dessert? The third glass is the closing for, converted, about four euros… That won't stop you from impressing that one great love, because it all depends on how you present it. No dessert is second to none when ordering a festive bottle of bubbly at the start of the evening.
I told you, it's always good!
Can this also be done in a group? Sure! Count on one bottle for every two companions, depending on the number of drivers there will always be someone willing to consume the extra glass(es). And reordering can be no problem, except for the settlement…
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