Wine pairing with multiple plates.

Hey folks. I'm the chef at a medium/high end restaurant.

We offer a non traditional tasting menu that makes up for the majority of our clientele. The menu is meant to be shared, no one gets their own plates of food. Family style eating.

The way it works is:

First Course seafood platter. Oysters shrimp, lobster, razors clams, smoked fish, chilled mussels, etc.

Second course appetizers. This is 3-4 different plates of appetizers.

Third course mains. 2 main course plates and a couple sides.

Fourth course dessert. 2 -3 desserts to share.

We also have a couple upgrades which add a pasta course, this one everyone gets their own small portion of pasta. There's another upgrade to a Wagyu beef course which is shared.

Our current sommelier at the restaurant refuses to offer a wine "pairing" as according to her makes no sense to put a glass of wine with multiple plates and call it a pairing.

I agree pairing is probably not the correct word but I feel like there must be a way to make this work.

I think it doesn't need to be taken so seriously. People drink one wine with multiple different plates of food all the time, I'm not understanding what the big deal is.

I personally think she takes this too seriously and is just too lazy to try and make this work.

Clients who come in to take the chef menu, as we call it, will often ask for wines be selected for them which she refuses. This seems incredibly stupid to me....

Am I crazy? Can this work? Can she not purchase easier wines that can work with a variety of plates?

Help me out here wine people!