Thank you all. I think the on its side storage where guests will see it is a must - EVERYONE KNOWS fine wine must be stored on its side whether it is true or not. We all know perception is everything and until Riki & Swirt just said it, I did not know differently either.
Still gathering info re my State rules..
gillumhouse said:
Thank you all. I think the on its side storage where guests will see it is a must - EVERYONE KNOWS fine wine must be stored on its side whether it is true or not. We all know perception is everything and until Riki & Swirt just said it, I did not know differently either.
Still gathering info re my State rules.
We used to have 2 wine stores here in town (and wine is also available at the grocery store). Each of them had storage for the bottles to be laying on their sides, with the one bottle standing upright so you could see what was in that bin. However, one of the stores used to keep most of the wine upright. All of the wines in the grocery store are standing upright.
Funny, tho, that at one wine tasting one of the store owners was making a BIG point about NOT standing bottles upright and how he wouldn't buy wine from a place that did. Obvious who he was talking about. And it's the OTHER store that is still in business...
It is a perception, yes. And a lot depends on where people buy their wine to start with. For those of us who see it displayed upright all the time, no biggie. Also, I know I am buying a $10 bottle of wine, not a $100 bottle so I'm less mindful of the 'rules'.
Find out what the rules are where you live about returning bad wine to the distributor. We had a restaurant here that got raves from my guests when they saw what happened at another table...diner ordered a bottle of wine and then sent it back, saying it was 'corked'. Second bottle, same thing, except this time the owner came out to handle the problem. The owner said, 'Please choose a different wine, may I suggest this one, on the house. This entire case is going back to the distributor in the morning, I apologize for this happening.'
What impressed my guests was that not a single restaurant employee batted an eye at taking the bottle back, no one sampled the wine to verify, they just did it. Not that you're going to have this happen, but you should know the rules about returns of bad wine.
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