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Pour wine to savor and enjoy, not guzzle

When you think of the broad concept of "enjoying wine," or at least when I think of it, it's hard not to imagine a glass being raised. Sometimes it's a person raising a glass in a gesture of "Cheers," and other times, it's a bottoms-up raising of the glass as someone takes a sip or a whiff of wine. But just as often, that glass is being raised slightly - at the end of an extended arm - to move it closer to the opening of a bottle that is about to be poured.

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