Big Machine

Big Machine—the record label of superstar singers Taylor Swift and Reba McEntire—is coming out with a vodka. Tenn South Distillery will help produce the spirit which will carry the tagline “Pour It On…Turn It Up…Lean In…Or Lean Back…And Indulge.” The vodka is said to derive its superior quality thanks in part to “pure Tennessee limestone water.” Ladies, ladies. Vodka? Really? Better things are made in limestone.

You should serve the same amount of a dessert wine as you would a regular wine.

Answer: False.

False. Since dessert wines are so concentrated and luscious, an appropriate serving is smaller--no more than two ounces (about half the standard serving of dry table wine). It’s fine to use white wine glasses or even glasses that are somewhat smaller. That said, the glasses you use should not be tiny--remember you still need room to swirl the wine. Finally, dessert wines should be served chilled, or at coolish room temperature. No dessert wine should ever be served warm.

“On more than one occasion in recent years, I’ve opened a wine list in a trendy restaurant and been a bit stumped. A lot of choices, but on the entire list, I may recognize about half the wines. I cannot imagine how a customer with less knowledge about wine than I, if such a person exists, feels reading an obscure wine list like that. Except intimidated. Which is not normally why a human goes to a restaurant. That’s why you go to church.”

—Ron Washam, The HoseMaster of Wine

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