What do you do when you are invited to a friend's or a family member's home for dinner and they serve bad wine?
Bad can mean many things. If the wine is corked, being in the business, I personally would take the opportunity to to educate everyone about the flaw in the wine. Cork taint can occur in any wine that uses a cork to seal the bottle. It is not a reflection on the quality of the producer. It's just something that happens with wine. Nobody is at fault.
But what if it's just inferior wine? There's still lots of it out there.
I have one friend, also in the business, who upon his first taste would exclaim, loud enough for everyone to hear:
"THIS SWILL IS GARBAGE"!!
That, of course, presumes this is at the beginning of the meal. After several drinks, the diatribe gets much worse - unprintable actually.
I just keep my mouth shut in these cases.
This is a no win situation.
If somebody is serving you a meal in their home, you don't insult any part of it.
Would you say: "these mashed potatoes are lumpy and need more butter?" I think not.
Same goes for when someone brings inferior wine to your home when you are hosting the dinner.
Zip it.
Call me a wuss, but, sometimes there are more important things than the wine.
Tom
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