{"id":3138,"date":"2025-11-30T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:22:22","slug":"editorial-bring-back-the-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=3138","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Bring Back the Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seated tastings are the norm in California wineries these days, especially in Sonoma County and Napa Valley.&nbsp; We understand the rationale from the wineries\u2019 perspective.&nbsp; Perhaps some wine tasters prefer to be waited upon, rather than simply having their glasses filled.&nbsp; We are not really opposed to seated tastings, but we would like to have the opportunity to choose.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.jpg 519w, https:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>The bar at Limerick Lane in Russian River.&nbsp; They also offer seated tastings.&nbsp; Bar tastings are less expensive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course it\u2019s nice to sit rather than stand while tasting wines.&nbsp; (Bar stools do alleviate this problem.)&nbsp; This is, after all, the way most of us enjoy wine at home.&nbsp; But there are drawbacks as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>We don\u2019t get to chat with other tasters.&nbsp; We\u2019ve frequently met nice people this way, and they also enjoy wine tasting or they wouldn\u2019t be there.&nbsp; Sometimes we could get a different take on certain wines than just our own.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the bar, we could sip and pour off wines at our own pace.&nbsp; If, for example, we only wanted to taste a winery\u2019s Zinfandels, we could focus on these and leave the Merlots and Syrahs untasted.&nbsp; This enables us to sample a winery\u2019s wares in less time, so we could visit more of them, without overconsuming alcohol.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is less pressure to join the wine clubs when we were at the bar.\u00a0 In part because we were moving long more swiftly, the server usually didn\u2019t bring it up unless we asked.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The bartender\/server is always present.\u00a0 The waiters at sit-down tastings come and go.\u00a0 Sometimes they are at another table, which happens in a bar setting as well.\u00a0 But other times they are chatting with their colleagues and we have to wait to be served.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t want to take away seated tastings from those who enjoy them.&nbsp; But we\u2019d like to have the choice to sit at the bar and be served as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seated tastings are the norm in California wineries these days, especially in Sonoma County and Napa Valley.&nbsp; We understand the rationale from the wineries\u2019 perspective.&nbsp; Perhaps some wine tasters prefer to be waited upon, rather than simply having their glasses filled.&nbsp; We are not really opposed to seated tastings, but we would like to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=3138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Editorial: Bring Back the Bars<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138"}],"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=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}