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Just curious - what do you all think the whole 'trying the bottle of wine that is brought to your table before it is poured' thing is about?
[Gah - I tried to set up a poll for this but goddamed LJ sucks arse and spat out funny errors and wouldn't let me post. So yeah - do you think it's so you can see if you like it or if it has oxidised? If you don't like it should they keep bringing you bottles of wine until you find one you like? Should they swap it immediately if you tell them it's corked or stand their confused asking you if you mean you don't like it?]
Chris, my family & I went out for dinner tonight at an Italian restaurant and we ordered a bottle of semillon sauvignon blanc. As soon as I tasted it I knew it had gone and told the woman so. She was just really confused and asked me if I didn't like it. I said no, I like that wine just fine - I've had it before - but it was 'corked'. She was just totally confused and I had to explain to her a few times that it was off and that she needed to get a new bottle.
I saw her and the maitre'd animatedly discussing my bottle of wine and went to investigate. At first he didn't seem to understand that it could be 'corked' as it didn't have a cork. He told me that I should get a different wine because the whole case was probably off. I told him it probably wasn't - that normally only 2-3 wines in 100 that have screw caps are off and that it's not due to a 'bad batch' of wine. (He obviously doesn't understand why wine goes bad). I begged him to please just give me another bottle and he said they only had a few left of that one and that it might be off too. We suspect he figured that even if the other bottles were off, he might be able to sell them to a diner with a crap enough palate they couldn't tell it was off and would still pay for it.
I would have thought that they would educate their waiters though about why they are giving people a taste of the wine and what to do if it has oxidised.
I've bought two oxidised screw caps in the past few months - lucky me!
[Gah - I tried to set up a poll for this but goddamed LJ sucks arse and spat out funny errors and wouldn't let me post. So yeah - do you think it's so you can see if you like it or if it has oxidised? If you don't like it should they keep bringing you bottles of wine until you find one you like? Should they swap it immediately if you tell them it's corked or stand their confused asking you if you mean you don't like it?]
Chris, my family & I went out for dinner tonight at an Italian restaurant and we ordered a bottle of semillon sauvignon blanc. As soon as I tasted it I knew it had gone and told the woman so. She was just really confused and asked me if I didn't like it. I said no, I like that wine just fine - I've had it before - but it was 'corked'. She was just totally confused and I had to explain to her a few times that it was off and that she needed to get a new bottle.
I saw her and the maitre'd animatedly discussing my bottle of wine and went to investigate. At first he didn't seem to understand that it could be 'corked' as it didn't have a cork. He told me that I should get a different wine because the whole case was probably off. I told him it probably wasn't - that normally only 2-3 wines in 100 that have screw caps are off and that it's not due to a 'bad batch' of wine. (He obviously doesn't understand why wine goes bad). I begged him to please just give me another bottle and he said they only had a few left of that one and that it might be off too. We suspect he figured that even if the other bottles were off, he might be able to sell them to a diner with a crap enough palate they couldn't tell it was off and would still pay for it.
I would have thought that they would educate their waiters though about why they are giving people a taste of the wine and what to do if it has oxidised.
I've bought two oxidised screw caps in the past few months - lucky me!
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