Last night we're doing a 50th birthday party for this guy's wife. No big deal, 82 people with a DJ.Just when we serve the salad, the husband asks my captain for the wine list. "I want to buy a good bottle of wine for my wife so we can celebrate", he says. Good bottle of wine? What would this guy know - he was so buck toothed he could eat corn-on-the-cob through a key hole.
Anyway, I get the wine list and hand it over to him. He takes around 20 minutes to look it over before he finally decides on a $60 Merlot. 20 minutes to decide on a $60 Merlot? Oh well.
I get the bottle, do my usual fantastic tableside wine opening presentation and let him taste the wine. "I don't really like this wine", he says. I apologize and ask "What is it you don't like about it sir"? "I just don't know but it tastes old" be whines. It "tastes old"... WTF !!!
Wine "don't taste old"...it may taste bitter, heavy, oakly, sweet, bold, tart, etc but NEVER "OLD". Dumb shit hillbilly he is. Now I'm stuck with a $60 bottle of wine that I'll have to give to the restaurant and hope they can pour off at the bar.
Maybe I'll offer him a wine "spritzer".
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5 comments:
What a freak.
What a douche!
Did he end up getting anything?
A douche indeed. You should be able to screen people first before letting them choose a wine.
You're very tolerant of the guy. Wine tasting in most places is purely to check that it is not corked or in other ways ruined. Personal preference once it is opened is nothing to do with it - as long as there is nothing wrong with it, then you bought it, you keep it. "Tastes old" too funny...
Love the blog!
what kind of wine rep do you have ? Leave the bottle open long enough to cork then insert cork. Give to rep get credit for the bottle.
I learned this after a table let me open a $300 bottle of Beringer Private Reserve Cab 97 instead of the Beringer Char 97 -the moroinsa didnt notice the diff in varietal til red wine was in the glass.
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