While you relax over a glass of flinty white wine, thoughtful technicians put out excellent freshly baked bread, a bit of squid-ink aioli with flash-fried calamari and lemon, scallop tartare with oroblanco-grapefruit supremes and cucumber-jalepeño-kale juice.
The wines were made by French-born technicians: Charles Girard (who has since resigned), Bernard Cannac and Bernard Ramis, vineyard manager.
They are technicians; they see the making of wine as a scientific, technical achievement.
"She'll hand out glasses and the dancers and the technicians will have a bottle of wine in their hand and she'll make a speech and they'll come over and fill all our glasses and thank us.
Wineries and wine consultants often have a team of lab technicians who oversee analysis of wine as it ferments.
His mother is a receptionist at NKS Distributors, a beer and wine distributor, and his father is a lab technician at DuPont, both in Wilmington, Del.
Hitherto, the Chinese rice wine brewing process is mainly controlled by experienced technician rather than by scientific instruments.
Perched at a back table the other afternoon and sipping a vodka and soda in a wine glass, she monitored a tide of deliverymen and technicians setting up for the night's 9 30 and 11 30 shows.
Repair technicians say they have seen phones doused with beer, wine, soda, coffee, salt water, chlorinated water and toilet water.
"It was a pragmatic response to certain things I know," said Robert Segal, a wine salesman between jobs, who once worked as an electrical technician on a nuclear submarine.
