I once met a 90-year-old man once who gave me the following advice, “Always buy, never rent.” He meant property of course, but, as most fat kids do, I chose to apply the advice to the practice of eating and drinking.
Thus, here is my nugget of wisdom to you, “For tables of two or more, the bottle is what you should pour.” Not only is it a better value to just buy the whole bottle, it’s also exciting. There’s something more grown up and posh about the full bottle, no matter what your numerical age. To order the bottle, taste the first pour, nod, and then watch the sommelier fill the other glasses...that is the full experience of wine.
As the Scottish poet Robert Louis Stevenson once said, “Wine is bottled poetry.” So why buy a stanza when the whole poem is there for the enjoying?
I loved this! I always feel like a "big girl" when I order the bottle. Plus other people at the table think I must be wise about wine. Hahaha! I just like the value.
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