There I was, attending a mini-seminar on Riedel wine glasses on the Celebrity Eclipse when a fellow passenger asked the question that made me cringe.
“What do you do if you can’t get rid of red wine stains?”
Ingrid Talavera (right), the sommelier conducting the Celebrity Life class, had just explained that you swirl a little bit of water with a little bit of soap and usually it will do the trick. But this woman wanted to know what to do if that didn’t work, and I had an answer that I wasn’t about to share with anybody in the company of a sommelier.
My answer was: “Put a couple of droops of bleach in a glass, fill it up with water and let it sit a few minutes, then rinse, rinse, rinse and rinse some more.”
The thought of telling a sommelier that I put bleach where wine would go made me shudder.
And then I heard her answer:
“Put a couple of drops of bleach…”