Would you pick a restaurant by its house wine?
by Hannah Crosbie
Dec 09, 2023
3 minutes
Before I brazenly ordered my first bottle for the table (a in , if you must know), a list’s by-the-glass section was my safe space. Far from being part of a well-heeled family of wine drinkers, I was constantly skint and ordering the house wine reminded me of it. Utterly overwhelmed, instead of taking a punt on my burgeoning knowledge, I’d anxiously squawk ‘red’ or ‘white’ at a well-meaning sommelier whom I’d convinced myself hated me. I couldn’t
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