By The Glass Valentino Wine Travel Video duration – 5.33 minutes Valentino’s Wine 101 Venetian, Las Vegas, USA Travel Video Gourmet Regionale Piero Selvaggio Valentino Valentino Santa Monica was the first recipient of the Wine Spectator Grand Award. Valentino Las Vegas eventually achieved the same honor in 2002. We currently have close to 20-24000 bottles in the inventory, about 25…24-2500 labels and our sommeliers always work with us in treating our wine and what’s best to match with the particular food. My name is Giorgio Ferrero. I’m actually the sommelier in Valentino. We are into what we call table thirty or Barolo room if you prefer. It is the most interesting room we have. The Barolo room start with this name because it actually was dedicated only to the Barolo section of our wine list and then of course because we needed a little more storage room with 2400 label in our wine list. Any of our customers for us is a VIP so a lot of VIP or celebrity if you want, is coming in and enjoying a table. The Sommelier’s Guide to Fine Wine Dining Alright, we can start with the Champagne Flute. The flute is not the real champagne glass but is the most common today in the service. It gives us the opportunity and the possibility to take a look at not only the sparkling part, the top part of the wine, so the foam but also the balage and the way the balage coming out. This other wine is a Sangiovese wine glass. This is a perfect glass for red wine like easy Sangiovese Chianti first and Rosso di Montalcino second. Bordeaux glass, Bordeaux glass is coming a little more specific, of course for any Bordeaux based blend – Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon first and for my personal suggestion is the perfect glass to enjoy Brunello or great Merlot. The burgundy glass is very popular everywhere in the world for Pinot Noir and is perfect for Amarone and is also perfect for a Barolo who is 100 percent Nebbiolo grape and in need this shape for oxygenation and also the color. So we open a bottle of Chianti Classico Castellare something that is easy to drink at this time in the day. There’s a lot of ways to open a bottle of wine, the best possible way is no matter if you’re home or with a friend or at the restaurant is just…have the label in the face the person or the wine double action and what I suggest never pull up the cork just slowly slowly slowly take out. We smell the cork because a lot of time is where we found the real smell of the wine so if the wine smell corky, you really feel when you smell the corky part. What I suggest to do is just always have the cork in the table and present to the guest and of course for Chianti as I said before we can use a Sangiovese glass. The color I’m able to tell the age of the wine, the kind of treatment of the wine and then the third part, the third part is most enjoyable is the taste. So I really suggest to use the steamer part of the glass in the right way. Don’t hold the glass unless the wine is cold and need to warm up because you don’t want to modify the original temperature of the wine. We need to remember, we sip the wine; the wine is something precious, we need to enjoy it. To drink a glass of wine is a pleasure; it’s not something you need to do if you like to drink a drink of beer. Wine is for pleasure, for lover and food lovers need to understand a great plate without wine is nothing. You can’t spend money in a plate and wine and you save money on the wine, it doesn’t make any sense. Salute.