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Article: More to a wine list than meets the eye.(Entertainment)

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Cape Times (South Africa)
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March 30, 2007
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It’s interesting how often wine lists in restaurants give the lie to the suggestion of quality that the eateries are trying to convince you of. Money spent on fine fittings, enormous rentals to hold beautiful positions, a menu that boasts fresh this and the best that – and a wine list that is not only founded utterly on commercial wines, but usually littered with errors in spelling.

How difficult can it be to hold the bottle in front of you and spell the name right? It is also the case that the vintage is an arbitrary number on the bottle for many wine lists (although its omission often also unmasks the restaurant’s intention to list the wine in ...

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