Slow Shift in Wine World ; Women Making Their Influence Felt

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If you were a waiter serving a couple at an upscale restaurant, to whom would you hand the wine list? Most times, the answer is the man. Even when a woman requests the wine list and orders the bottle, a male sitting at the same table will be offered the first taste, according to wine industry experts.

"Women are not getting the menus. They're ordering the wine, and then the taste comes back to the fella," said Cecile Giannangeli, president of online wine source FineWine.com and owner of two wine stores in the Washington, D.C., area.

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Slow Shift in Wine World ; Women Making Their Influence Felt

And women are often prejudged as preferring certain wines: Waiters assume "this is a white zinfandel kind of a gal," she said.

Others agreed. "It's simply an outdated etiquette," s...

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