Wine by the glass

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Greetings Innkeeper,

Alas, this doesn't only happen in small, lesser known restaurants. It also happens in the well-known ones as well.

A couple of years back, while we were staying at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, we decided to stop in at the King Cole lounge for a glass of wine after a long day of shopping.

My wife ordered a glass of red and it was clearly corked. We called the waiter over and explained our concern. To my horror, he took a sip from the glass right in front of us and proceeded to argue the point! Absolutely incredible! In his opinion... the wine wasn't corked!

I simply told him to "go away and send the manager over." There wasn't an argument whatsoever. He simply replaced it... as is the appropriate thing to do!

Needless to say... the waiter received a BIG tip! NOT!!!

So many wines... so little time!

Cheers