"There is a wine on the menu that is absolutely terrible--a bitter, acidic Cabernet S. The waitress did not let us taste the wine before hand, instead pouring two overly glasses and then plonked them down in front of us and walked away. When we let her know that it really wasn't to our taste and we'd have a beer instead, it was a huge production, grilling us on our knowledge of wine, bringing the glasses to the barman to taste, returning with the barman's report that it wasn't the wine that was bad but our own palates, sniffing and swirling the wine and noting to us that it looks delicious to her. It was absurd and funny, but a bit much and since it happened at the beginning of the meal, the event sort of ruined the experience."
