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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by ThomPete on Saturday January 02, 2016 @10:11AM (#10826377)
Cork 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.
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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by lucaspiller on Saturday January 02, 2016 @10:18AM (#10826397)
Most 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?
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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by ThomPete on Saturday January 02, 2016 @10:28AM (#10826427)
Yeah 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.
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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by logicallee on Saturday January 02, 2016 @10:23AM (#10826409)
may just be me, but if your waiter is playing sommelier with a screw top house wine then yes, it's just to seem fancy :)
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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by alkonaut on Saturday January 02, 2016 @01:25PM (#10827159)
Mostly to seem fancy I think, although a wine can be bad in a screw top too (otherwise we'd see more of them).
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