I'm beginning to think that wine lists at restaurants are pretty stupid. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about wine. I know the varietals. I know how to describe the taste of the wine. And I know what I'm looking for in the wine I drink. But when I'm presented with a wine list, particularly at a non-chain restaurant, I usually recognize only three or four bottles out of the hundred on the list. And the information on the list, which is basically the name and the price, is worthless.
Case in point, Mel, Lori, Megan and I went out to dinner at a very nice local Italian restaurant. The wine list rolls around to me and I looked at it, shook my head and thought to myself, "I have no clue." Since we had been talking about a time that the three of us had gone out before and had a great Barollo (after one that had been corked), I just asked the waiter to bring us a good Barollo. And guess what... he did. It was an awesome bottle.
So unless I recognize a good bottle, or I've had a bottle there before that I like, I think I'm going to let the waiter decide after I tell him or her what I'm looking for. Hell, they know their wine list far better than I ever will.
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