When people are at a fancy restaurant and order a bottle of wine the waiter brings it out and pours out a sip to taste. What happens if the customer dosen’t like it? Can you actually send back the whole bottle? Does the customer pay for it? What does the restaurant do with the rest of the bottled?
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A lot of people are correctly commenting that the reason for tasting is solely to check that the wine is not flawed.
There is an exception to this general rule though. On one or two occasions a sommelier has given a bad recommendation and misdescribed a wine. Those times I (or my group) refused the bottle were not charged. That only happens in pretty extreme circumstances though.
The one I remember best was where we were celebrating a court win in a nice wine bar. Asked the somm for a recommendation of a fresh white to go with our nibbles. He suggested a wine he said was perfect for us, and very popular. Came back with the most funk-stained, cloudy bretty natural wine I’ve ever had the misfortune to smell. The somm acted like all snobby when we said this was not what we wanted, and tried to say it is extremely popular and sought-after, but backed down in the end.
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