les hauts de pontet paudillac 1983

[wondersofwine]

I recall only one time when I returned a wine in a restaurant--and then it was certainly not one that cost hundreds of dollars. A Mosel wine in a German restaurant tasted like water (what causes that anyway? oxidation?) The waitress seemed skeptical but took the glass away and had someone in the kitchen test the bottle. She came back apologizing and offering me a decent glass of wine from another bottle.
(I should have asked for my money back on the Silverado Sauvignon Blanc that tasted like a tongue depressor. I was hoping that the waitress would ask why I still had a full glass of wine and maybe offer a refund or substitution but she took the glass away without a word to me).