Posted by Daisy on May 31, 2006, 8:51 am, in reply to "Re: House wine" The ignorance bit is when we let them get away with it. Let's face it, with wine you usually get a chance to splutter and send it back - that pretentious moment when they pour a little into the gentleman's glass and wait (one arm behind the back) for the gentleman to nod. You don't have to nod. Taste it. If it's rough and horrible, taste it again to be sure, frown a bit and ask to look at the bottle. Don't worry if you can't read a word of it - just say "No thanks, bring me a jug of water instead" Yes, I know you wanted wine, but you're not going to get anything decent here, so unless you've not ordered food yet, (in which case you can leave) you're stuck. But at least you've not paid a lot of money for potable creosote.
Exactly, it's about money and ignorance. Swilling around in the European wine lake is a lot of dismal wine. Proper wine shops have never stocked it, and the supermarkets won't buy it any more, their buyers are now all MWs and know that their stock will be reviewed by wine magazines and upmarket newpapers. That leaves but one outlet: the captive diner. While many restaurants offer a decent house wine at a fair-ish price, quite a lot are happy to buy the dregs of the wine lake cheaply, and sell it on to us expensively. That's the money bit.
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