Wine 202

So far, no irate winery owners have called in a fury, threatening law suits and/or damages nor have any piteous (collect) calls come in from the Napa Valley police station so am going to assume that you all behaved with exemplary good manners.

A visit to a winery is pleasant enough but did you know that you can walk into many restaurants, be seated and handed something called a "wine list"?  And you choose from an often stunning variety and the waiter brings a bottle of it to your table?!

Slick, eh?

Food & Wine is rapidly gaining a well-deserved reputation as "pushy" in their advice.   Here they are dead wrong -- red with meat; white with fish.  Okay.  Maybe in 1955.

Turning to the computer, one can suss out the chosen restaurant's wine list and know exactly what you'll be ordering when you get there. 

Really enjoyed that bottle of wine?  Phone camera the label for later references in other restaurants. 

My nephew is a poised and suave sommelier in a posh resort near Dubuque - Steve, F &W says these are smart questions to ask your sommelier - true or not?

"What grape or region are you most excited about right now?"  (Grovel much?)

"Do you have anything open that's not on your by-the-glass list?"  Say, huh?  People do not leave wine behind or at least no one in my acquaintance would.

"Can you bring me something nerdy?"  How about the check, chucklehead?