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Siman 175 – Hatov V’hamaytiv on wine

75. One Hagoffen will suffice for all the wine you will drink at a sitting. However, under the following conditions, a beracha Hatov V’hamaytiv will be recited on more wine even if you know about it at the time of the Hagoffen. You will:

  1. drink both wines with at least one other person (wife and children count).
  2. put the wine out for anyone who wants – so they become like your “partners” (excluding a case where the host is merely serving the guest).
  3. drink in the same room. (ShA 1,4 – MB 15)
    1. If the second wine is of equal quality it will require a beracha only if it was brought from a different building and the reason for bringing it is to taste a different wine. But if you finished the first wine already, it appears as if you are bringing the second wine just because you need more. (MB 3 – ShaH 6)
    2. If you aren’t sure that the second wine is of equal quality, you will still say Hatov V’hamaytiv. (ShA 2)
    3. If the second wine is newer, you can assume it is of inferior quality – don’t say a beracha. (MB 10)
    4. If the first wine was white (healthier) and the second wine is red, you can assume it is inferior quality (because it is not as healthy) – don’t say a beracha. (MB 13)
    5. If the second wine is of better quality, you say a Hatov V’hamaytiv even if both were on the table at the time that you said Hagoffen. But, you should have said the Hagoffen over the better quality wine. (ShA 3 – MB 5)
    6. It’s Seder Night and you didn’t like the taste of the first cup of wine, when you drink a preferred wine for the second cup, you will say two berachos on it: Hagoffen (our minhag – see later Siman 474) and Hatov V’hamaytiv. (ShaH 3)
    7. They brought many wines at once and you do not know the order of quality – remove all but one from the table, say Hagoffen on that one, bring another, and say Hatov V’hamaytiv on the second. Each subsequent one that you drink will require a separate Hatov V’hamaytiv. (The ikkar din is true even if they are all on the table the whole time.) (MB 14)
    8. If you forgot to say Hatov V’hamaytiv you can still say it if you drink more. (MB 15)