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Well here's my latest.......

Staying at a profile Sydney Harbour hotel in Walsh Bay.
Drinks out on the terrace with million $$ views. Sipping on a $12 glass of their 'best' Shiraz by the glass (Chapel Hill '12 Parsons Nose) available in Schott Zwiesel glassware.

I think that's a mismatch!

ross

Shiraz-Viognier

ross67 wrote:Well here's my latest.......

Staying at a profile Sydney Harbour hotel in Walsh Bay.
Drinks out on the terrace with million $$ views. Sipping on a $12 glass of their 'best' Shiraz by the glass (Chapel Hill '12 Parsons Nose) available in Schott Zwiesel glassware.

I think that's a mismatch!

ross

At twelve dollars a glass ... I'd say a generous pour of 150 ml is an absolute joke, too. Doesn't it sell regurlarly for about $15 a bottle? 400% mark up?

Tempranillo - Chardonnay?
OK, so I haven't tried it....
but really?

At some local restaraunt in Shanghai ... premier Cru white burgundy with nothing but a chopstick to open the cork and then drunk out of chinese tea cups...

Sauvignon Blanc with anything

Sitting on a fold up chair with no furniture in the room whatsoever, eating a meat pie off a paper plate while drinking 86 Grange.

Mike Hawkins wrote:Sitting on a fold up chair with no furniture in the room whatsoever, eating a meat pie off a paper plate while drinking 86 Grange.

Personal experience, Mike? Sounds like a story worth telling.

Grange, HOG and my wallet

Luke W wrote:Sauvignon Blanc with anything

I agree.

crusty2 wrote:Grange, HOG and my wallet

My taste and my ability to pay for that taste!

Cheers
Ian

Waiters Friend wrote:

Mike Hawkins wrote:Sitting on a fold up chair with no furniture in the room whatsoever, eating a meat pie off a paper plate while drinking 86 Grange.

Personal experience, Mike? Sounds like a story worth telling.

Pretty boring story actually..... It was when I moved from Sydney to NY. I wanted one last good bottle before leaving, but by the time I got around to opening it, the removalists had been and gone. All I had left was the few things I was throwing out....

Greatest mismatch - great food with no wine.......

Cheers

Michael

In a dive bar with a pint in one hand and a 1920-something Mouton-Rothschild or Margaux in the other. It was a first growth and it started with an M. Many things wrong here.

A simple but all to common- good wine in poor glassware or worse, in a plastic glass.

Phil H wrote:A simple but all to common- good wine in poor glassware or worse, in a plastic glass.

Ditto above.

Carl

I think Mike gets the cigar for his story..

ross

Went out to dinner with my partner and their family, and they told me to bring nice Champagne. I thought since they wanted something nice, yet were not wine drinkers, I figured Dom Perignon 2004 as I figured they would be familiar with the name since 'I've heard them mention Moet etc. in the past.

They didn't recognise the wine, nor like it as they didn't get through a glass each and remarks being, "I like sweet stuff".

Just the other night I brought an $11 Pinot Grigio...they all loved it.

Should've know better. Expensive wine and non-wine drinkers is my mis-match.

n4sir wrote:Shiraz-Viognier

Yep!

Milan wrote:Went out to dinner with my partner and their family, and they told me to bring nice Champagne. I thought since they wanted something nice, yet were not wine drinkers, I figured Dom Perignon 2004 as I figured they would be familiar with the name since 'I've heard them mention Moet etc. in the past.

They didn't recognise the wine, nor like it as they didn't get through a glass each and remarks being, "I like sweet stuff".

Just the other night I brought an $11 Pinot Grigio...they all loved it.

Should've know better. Expensive wine and non-wine drinkers is my mis-match.

That's funny! But sad too that you had no experience of your partner's family's wine preferences. Life is for learning.

daz wrote:

Milan wrote:Went out to dinner with my partner and their family, and they told me to bring nice Champagne. I thought since they wanted something nice, yet were not wine drinkers, I figured Dom Perignon 2004 as I figured they would be familiar with the name since 'I've heard them mention Moet etc. in the past.

They didn't recognise the wine, nor like it as they didn't get through a glass each and remarks being, "I like sweet stuff".

Just the other night I brought an $11 Pinot Grigio...they all loved it.

Should've know better. Expensive wine and non-wine drinkers is my mis-match.

That's funny! But sad too that you had no experience of your partner's family's wine preferences. Life is for learning.

I think we have all probably been in situations like this.

I often get it where I might have a bottle with a real story, something I am really keen on but to non-wine people its just "oh thats a nice glass of wine"

daz wrote:

n4sir wrote:Shiraz-Viognier

Yep!

+1

Serving bogan wine drinking friends anything that costs more than $5.00 per bottle.

Any pubs selling the Fifth Leg ....