We were at a restaurant called Seven in Ascona, Switzerland last weekend. On the table were two serving pieces, designed by Martin Kastner, (www.martinkastner.com), distributed by Crucial Detail, that were so different, yet so functional, I have to post them.
Ahem, these are strictly for the man/woman who has everything, i.e. Niceguy.
1. The cork presenter. Don't you hate it when the server just hands you the cork to sniff from the tips of their God-Only-Knows-Where-They've-Been grubby fingers? I do. Luckily, there now exists a sanitary, yet posh, way to sniff the cork.
2. The tilted skewer. Now, the website for Crucial Detail shows this culinary cutie with an hors d'oeuvres on the end, but at Seven, they served the bread on it. That's right. They sliced the baguette and threaded the slices onto the skewer. No more gauche wicker bread baskets, just Leaning Tower of Pisa bread slices. Very cool!
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Never like the massive bread baskets. I do see a very competitive
displaying of foods these days in NYC. All in good fun.
Corks are not meant to be sniffed. They tend to hold sediments and
do not offer much about the wine in scent. They do tell about moisture
and a fine wine of high dollar needs to correspond the marking on the
cork with the vineyard. A very dry and brittle cork may have failed/oxidized
the wine. Should always be opened at the table, including the seal.
Amazing what those grimy hands do when you are not watching.
Not being sassy, but a famous case of a NYC sommelier who gestured
the seal removal on the way to the table...always had a seal in his pocked,
but he had been re-sealing wine, filling with a much lesser quality.
Dirty bastard.
(i was in the wine import business years ago)
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