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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Nearly everyone is saying • to discern whether the wine has gone bad • to determine if the wine is corked • etc.
But there are still rare exceptions. I attended a wedding dinner at a snooty restaurant with a wine list the size of an old Manhattan phone book, and one V.I.P. ordered a $300 bottle, specific vineyard, specific year, etc …
**From the taste**, he could determine it was not what was ordered, apparently an adjacent year — so he refused it.
Both the sommelier and the house manager came by the table and apologized **profusely** for the error.
(And I’m guessing the back-of-house staff got to enjoy a $295 bottle of wine for themselves!)
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