Wine & Spirits

1. རྒུན་ཆང་གི་ཐོ་ཡིག་མཐོང་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Gün chang gi tho yik tong thub bam?

   May I see the wine list?

   Usage

   Requesting the wine list at a restaurant

   Grammar Note

   "tong thub" = "can see" potential form

2. ས་གནས་ཀྱི་རྒུན་ཆང་ཞིག་བཀོད་རོགས།

   Sane kyi gün chang zhik ko rok.

   Can you recommend a local wine?

   Usage

   Asking for a local wine recommendation

   Grammar Note

   "ko rok" = polite "please arrange/suggest"

3. ང་དམར་པོའི་རྒུན་ཆང་ཞིག་འདོད་ཀྱི་ཡིན།

   Nga marpo yi gün chang zhik do kyi yin.

   I'd like a red wine, please.

   Usage

   Ordering a glass of red wine

   Grammar Note

   "do kyi yin" = "I want/desire"

4. ཕོར་པ་ཞིག་འདོད། ཤེལ་དམ་གང་གཅིག་འདོད།

   Phor pa zhik do. Shel dam gang chik do.

   I'd like a glass. I'd like a bottle, please.

   Usage

   Ordering by glass or bottle

   Grammar Note

   "gang chik" = "one (container)"

5. ཟས་འདི་དང་གང་ཞིག་མཐུན་པ་ཡིན།

   Ze di dang gang zhik thunpa yin?

   What pairs well with this dish?

   Usage

   Asking what pairs well with the dish

   Grammar Note

   "-dang thunpa" = "compatible with"

6. འདིའི་ཆང་གི་ཆེ་བ་ག་ཚོད་ཡིན།

   Di chang gi chewa katso yin?

   What is the alcohol content?

   Usage

   Checking the alcohol percentage

   Grammar Note

   "chang chewa" = "alcohol strength"

7. འདི་སྐམ་པོ་རེད། འབྲས་བུའི་རོ་ཡོད། འཇམ་མོ་རེད།

   Di kampo re. Drebu yi ro yo. Jammo re.

   This is dry. Fruity. Smooth.

   Usage

   Describing tasting notes for wine

   Grammar Note

   "ro yo" = "has flavor"

8. ས་གནས་ཀྱི་ཆང་ཞིག་བཀོད་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Sane kyi chang zhik ko thub bam?

   Can you recommend a local alcohol?

   Usage

   Requesting a recommendation for local alcohol

   Grammar Note

   "chang" typically refers to traditional Tibetan barley beer

9. རྒུན་ཆང་རོ་མྱོང་བྱེད་པར་འདོད།

   Gün chang ro nyong che par do.

   I'd like to do a wine tasting.

   Usage

   Signing up for a wine tasting session

   Grammar Note

   "che par do" = "want to do"

10. ཉུང་ཉུང་ལ་མྱོང་དུ་གཏོང་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Nyung nyung la nyong du tong thub bam?

    Do you offer samples?

    Usage

    Asking for small tasting samples

    Grammar Note

    Reduplication "nyung nyung" = "a little"

11. མངར་མོ་མ་ཡིན་པར་གནང་།

    Ngarmo ma yin par nang.

    Not too sweet, please.

    Usage

    Requesting a dry or less sweet wine

    Grammar Note

    "ma yin par" = negative adverb "not ~"

12. གཙོ་བོའི་རྒུན་ཆང་ག་རེ་རེད།

    Tsowo yi gün chang kare re?

    What's the house wine?

    Usage

    Asking about the house wine

    Grammar Note

    "tsowo" = "main/primary"

13. རྒུན་ཆང་འདི་ས་ཆ་གང་ནས་ཡིན།

    Gün chang di sacha gang ne yin?

    What region is this wine from?

    Usage

    Confirming the wine's region of origin

    Grammar Note

    "gang ne yin" = "where does it come from"

14. ཆང་གིས་བཟོས་པའི་ཕོར་པ་ཞིག་འདོད།

    Chang gi zo pai phor pa zhik do.

    I'd like a cocktail made with alcohol.

    Usage

    Ordering a cocktail made with a spirit

    Grammar Note

    "-gi zo pa" = "made with"

15. བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།

    Tashi delek

    Cheers! Let's toast!

    Usage

    Toast expression. In Tibet you say it to each person around the table in turn, taking a sip after each one

    Grammar Note

    Tibetan has no dedicated toasting word; the all-purpose blessing "Tashi delek" serves as the toast

16. རྒུན་ཆང་འདི་གྲང་མོ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Gün chang di drangmo yo dam?

    Is this wine chilled?

    Usage

    Checking if the wine is properly chilled

    Grammar Note

    "-yo dam" = "is there ~?" checking question

17. ཆང་མེད་པའི་འཐུང་མ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Chang me pai thungma yo dam?

    Do you have non-alcoholic options?

    Usage

    Asking for non-alcoholic drink options

    Grammar Note

    "me pa" = adjectival "without ~"

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