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Do you know what you're doing when this arrives at a restaurant? I suddenly realised I had become one of those arseholes who thinks they know what they're talking about when I was earting out the other day.

I'm not sure whether it's worse being completely clueless or making like you understand, there's not really any right way to come off not looking like a twat really.
 
Love woman milk would have been a rather nifty name :D

I don't drink wine either, except for the tonic variety, but my mammy always used to drink the Liebfraumilch was a kid. I think that might be what put me off wine forever as the stuff was stinking. I remember coming home drunk as a teen, wanting to continue my buzz, and trying to get stuck into a bottle of the stuff. It was just instant heartburn!
 
I've never been a drinker. Not sure about wine and heartburn but Guinness always gives me a cricked neck :? Really don't know why..even just half a pint.
 
I typically receive plenty of Red wine from specialists over xmas, which I promptly regift because it's usually a recipe for a nice hangover. One or two glasses on it's own I'm fine, but add a beer or glass of white to equation and I'm fucked

In other news it is the 50th birthday of cask wine. Long live Goon of Fortune

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order what you like. if you don't know what you like, go to your local wine store and ask for recommendations,. see if they have tasting events so you can try some different wines and decide what you like. maybe you'll discover you have a preference. maybe you won't like anything.

you're only a pretentious twat when you start pretending to be something you're not.

alasdair
 
Having worked in the trade and been a bar tender for a number of years quite honestly we just want you to taste it to see if it's off or really not to your liking....

Pour a small amount into the glass, swirl to breathe a bit and get a snout full. If it's good it's good if it's not the staff will see that you get a wine to your liking.

Be a prick about it be it on you own head....

Choose a £150 + bottle of wine which you turn your nose up to that cannot be re-sold by the glass and pretty much you're fucked of an evening!!! Douche move.

Point is, when it arrives, sample it, if you like it thumbs up, if not simply say something. Most things can be amended.
 
Josh said:
Why you should never order the second cheapest wine

Seriously though, doesn't everyone just order the cheapest? :/
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No, the second cheapest is usually worse, so you'd order that on a date to make sure she isn't too clever & doesn't have any good taste (pretty much a given if she's out with me, but can't be too careful).

Also, as sadie says it's best not to be a dick to staff in a resturant until after they've served your food.
 
`With trow like that, YEAH! Also, A blend cab/merlot? If you feel pretentious enough to brag that you're pretentious please feel free to find something worthy of being pretentious of.....



Just sayin <3
 
I already said I don't drink wine. I give it to my patients once I've completed a case.

Usually has a ribbon and cellophane wrapped around it. You can't get more pompous than that surely?
 
How about if you're pretending to be a pretentious twat?

One Thousand Words said:
Wine snobs are almost as intolerable as whiskey snobs.
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Most of 'em (whisk(e)y snobs)don't know what they're talking about.

My favourite is "I only drink single malts". Utterly fucking clueless. They'd take a fifteen-year-old Glentwattachintie over a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue. Yet if you blind-tested them, they'd go for any auld slop from the supermarket.
 
Satire, Bob. Satire.

I'd rather meet a lovely, genuine person who comes across as being conceited and aloof than eleven who present themselves as humble, friendly and warm, and turn out to be anything but.

I've encountered far too many of the latter and not nearly enough of the former.
 
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