Waiter Frustrations

[summa]

I think perhaps your mistake was in assuming the waiter new anything more about wines than you did.

Having worked in the restaurant business for around a decade, mostly as a casual fine dining waiter, I know from experience that the vast majority of servers actually don't know didly squat about wine (surprisingly this is true even in more upscale settings). So the waiter was possibly just reciting something told to him...

However, there is a decent chance that at least one waiter, or some other staff member does know something about wine and the best thing may be to ask the waiter if there is such a person.

[This message has been edited by summa (edited 08-26-2001).]