{"id":2040,"date":"2022-02-27T17:54:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T17:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2022-02-27T17:54:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T17:54:59","slug":"wine-tasting-amenities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Wine Tasting Amenities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wineries are in several businesses.\u00a0 Of course, their basic business is making and selling wine.\u00a0 In this regard, their competition is other beverages, from soda pop through whiskey.\u00a0 Mostly it\u2019s alcoholic beverages consumed in a social setting, with beer brewers their primary competition as an industry.<\/p>\n

They also make a substantial amount of money from wine tasting, which is Power Tasting\u2019s <\/em>subject.\u00a0 Wineries are in the business of tourism, which is why we now see so many resorts opening in Wine Country.<\/p>\n

So when we wine aficionados go wine tasting, we are certainly drawn to specific wineries by the quality of the wine being served.\u00a0 To a very great extent, we also choose one winery to visit over another based on the overall experience we expect to have there.\u00a0 Beyond the wine, we are attracted to the obvious big things: location, architecture and other attractions, such as art<\/a> or panoramic views<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The tasting room at Louis M. Martini winery.<\/em><\/p>\n

At a much more subtle level, the various amenities offered by a winery make a great deal of difference to the way we feel as we remember our experiences and plan to return.\u00a0 The first and ultimately the most important is the personal interaction we have with the servers and other employees.\u00a0 They should make a visitor feel more like a guest than a customer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No one wants to feel looked down upon or intimidated. To our experience most do a good job of hospitality, but we have experienced some notable exceptions.\u00a0 We have never returned to those places.<\/p>\n

A tasting room should express the personality of the owners.\u00a0 As more and more winemakers are taken over by big corporations, the tasting rooms have become visitor centers, located in palatial buildings that feel more like show rooms than friendly places to gather and sip.<\/p>\n

If the owners collect art<\/a> or horses<\/a> or musical instruments or race car<\/a> paraphernalia, they should share their collections with their guests.\u00a0 Equally, the more humble wineries that are extensions of farms (which is all a vineyard is) should be rustic without being shabby.<\/p>\n

At the most elemental level, wineries should show consideration for their guests no differently than each of us would do in welcoming friends into our homes.\u00a0 The tasting rooms should be clean and tidy.\u00a0 Double that for the bathrooms.\u00a0 We appreciate shady places to park.\u00a0 If there is bar service, there should be a place to sit if one wants to.\u00a0 There should be accommodation for those with mobility issues.\u00a0 Some sunlight is always appreciated as well as a view of the vines or the town, depending on location.<\/p>\n

The little things add up, often in a subliminal manner.\u00a0 Wine tasting venues in our times is about entertainment almost as much as wine.\u00a0 Serving wine in the barn on a plank and two barrels might have been the way things were done 50 years ago, but in those days the wineries weren\u2019t charging you to sip their wines nor selling their products for three-figure prices. Most winery owners understand that the experience is a part of their business model.\u00a0 The others need to catch up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wineries are in several businesses.\u00a0 Of course, their basic business is making and selling wine.\u00a0 In this regard, their competition is other beverages, from soda pop through whiskey.\u00a0 Mostly it\u2019s alcoholic beverages consumed in a social setting, with beer brewers their primary competition as an industry. They also make a substantial amount of money from … Continue reading Wine Tasting Amenities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}