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I've always wondered if anyone ever returned a wine bottle after tasting it. I've never dared trying.
by seivan 11y ago
I've always wondered if anyone ever returned a wine bottle after tasting it. I've never dared trying.
- hackbinary 11y agoI have. On the very rare occasion, the wined is corked. I get an exchange, not a refund.
- grogenaut 11y agoI've always wondered how obvious corked wine is. Having I think never tasted it. Makes me paranoid I'd be wrong.
- justincormack 11y agoIt is more obvious to some people than others. Many people just assume its bad wine but will drink it anyway.
- grogenaut 11y agoIs it seriously vinegared taste or just weirdly pungent? I'm betting I'd drink it anyway cause I didn't know better. I do love a good sipping balsamic.
- justincormack 11y agoNo it is not vinegar like at all, the wine tastes pretty tasteless, but there is an unpleasant smell, does smell a bit like a cork might taste.
- bboreham 11y agoThe odour is similar to well-used running shoes.
- ThomPete 11y agoCork is the only reason why you would normally return a bottle of wine. Even in restaurants. They will probably allow you to return it if you dont like, but it's not the reason why they ask you to taste it. It's for the cork.
- lucaspiller 11y agoMost restaurants in the UK serve house wines from screw tops, but they still ask you to taste it when they bring it to the table. Is it just to make it seem fancy?
- logicallee 11y agomay just be me, but if your waiter is playing sommelier with a screw top house wine then yes, it's just to seem fancy :)
- ThomPete 11y agoYeah thats just to make them seem fancy. Again most restaurants will allow you to return a bottle if you don't like the taste of it but it's not why they ask you to taste it.
- alkonaut 11y agoMostly to seem fancy I think, although a wine can be bad in a screw top too (otherwise we'd see more of them).
- noja 11y agoYou don't taste the wine, you check if it's corked.
- beachstartup 11y agoi have, from whole foods. the wine had gone bad.