Seem like you know what you did even though you don’t.
People will try to take photos of you. Work with them or it will not work. Multiple chins are not a good look.
Know thy prices!
Know the quantity you have left to sell!
I repeat: Don’t talk down your wine,
let the taster give their thoughts first.
Expect them to be late, you know you would be if it was you.
Open question: Is showing photos of you harvesting on crutches cool?
Provide guest with a clean glass.
It should not smell.
It should not be schmered with finger grease, lip prints or ex-cassoulet fat.
Provide something to spit in that's not so shallow it spits back.
Read the room: some people like the x day maceration blabla, others less so.
Snacks are nice!
This is France!
Call it casse-croûte.
Watch your dose. Don't serve to drink nor stingy-drip low.
You've had millions of problems this year, yes. They don't need to know (about them all).
Smile!
Relax!
Rinse your vanne! Check your chapeaux!
Don’t stir the lies with your pipette. It's awkward to have an audience watch you sucking up barrel-overflow yelling suck-suck-go-go
(three men deep in a cave plus me, trust me I know.)
Leave the wines with sugar til last? They're not a pro? Maybe don't bother with them (the not-finished wines I mean) at all?
Don’t seem insecure even though you are because you've forgotten what got mixed into where or when or why or what's actually in this damejean or how.
Do try to breathe, slow it down. PEOPLE ARE VISITING YOU TO TASTE YOUR WINES! You are an imposter only as long as you feel you are.
