Premium wines

January 12, 2007

Expensive high-class restaurants will present on the menu a list of exquisite wines that are … what else than expensive.Those are called premium wines, white or red (especially red), being often at their best years or even decades after bottling. That certainly can bring out the flavour in enjoying a meal in a beautiful restaurant, most of all if we are talking about dinner and you are well accompanied (you get the picture!…). However, there is a bad part in this expensive wine story (and I’m not just talking about the price). Premium wines may spoil after such long storage periods, unknown to the drinker about to open the bottle. The wine may be used again in order to obtain a drinkable wine, but the unpleasant situation persists. Of course, diners refuse to bear the expense and return the wine, and that is why restaurants will often charge between two and five times the price of what a wine merchant may ask for an exceptional vintage.

So be prepared when asking for a premium wine in a premium restaurant in order to have the premium experience you are seeking. Bordeaux wine