Second-Least-Expensive Wine Theory
The theory actually belongs to a friend of mine. This goes out to him.
(And to all those who don’t have a clue which wine to order.)
The rest of the list is brilliant.
(I wonder if we’d prefer to have just a few famous wines that are available in most places so that we just know what each tastes like and whether or not we like it? kinda like beer. Have a few ‘specialty’ wines on the menu but don’t make it a $40 gamble with every dinner out)
(And since we’re talking wine. Did anyone ever take that first taste sip and went “eh. Not really what I was hoping for. Can we have the third-least expensive instead?”…..? Can someone please tell me the purpose of tasting? If my earlier comment materialized, and we had like ten-to-twenty wines that are available in most places, then maybe I’d know that this particular bottle is bad. But it’s almost always my first time to taste the wine, so there’s no way for me to tell whether that’s a bad bottle or a bad wine.
You know what? the next time just pour the damn thing and let us continue our conversation without pressuring us into the little act of giving you the go/thumbs up/perfect/whatever that we have to do. I know it’s not your fault, but you don’t have to make me choose between pretending/acting or admitting that I don’t know a good wine from one that had gone bad. Thank you.)
via: pearlsbeforeswine:
