You have probably been present at a restaurant table when a bottle of wine was ordered, but have you ever been present when a bottle was rejected?
When my wife said she wanted to reject the newly opened bottle of wine she had just ordered a few minutes earlier, I thought she was kidding.
Surprise, she wasn’t.
She said it didn’t taste right.
My first thought was, ‘How would she know?’ I knew that she did not know anything about wine. I knew that she had not had enough wine education or wine experience to reject a bottle unless it had spoiled to such a degree that it tasted truly repulsive.
For a bottle to be rejected by a wine connoisseur is legitimate, but for a bottle to be rejected by a wine novice is quite another matter.
While she had been evaluating the wine, sniffing it, swirling it, etc. I had been drinking it. I had already consumed three glasses by the time she informed me the bottle was going to have to be rejected.
I thought sending back an almost half empty bottle and saying we did not like it would sound like we were attempting to scam the restaurant.
I had to think fast. I had to come up with a solution that would satisfy the restaurant owner and my wife.
And I did.
You will enjoy reading this humorous true short story about a bottle of wine that was rejected by a pseudo wine expert.
When my wife said she wanted to reject the newly opened bottle of wine she had just ordered a few minutes earlier, I thought she was kidding.
Surprise, she wasn’t.
She said it didn’t taste right.
My first thought was, ‘How would she know?’ I knew that she did not know anything about wine. I knew that she had not had enough wine education or wine experience to reject a bottle unless it had spoiled to such a degree that it tasted truly repulsive.
For a bottle to be rejected by a wine connoisseur is legitimate, but for a bottle to be rejected by a wine novice is quite another matter.
While she had been evaluating the wine, sniffing it, swirling it, etc. I had been drinking it. I had already consumed three glasses by the time she informed me the bottle was going to have to be rejected.
I thought sending back an almost half empty bottle and saying we did not like it would sound like we were attempting to scam the restaurant.
I had to think fast. I had to come up with a solution that would satisfy the restaurant owner and my wife.
And I did.
You will enjoy reading this humorous true short story about a bottle of wine that was rejected by a pseudo wine expert.
