Wine Waiter’s Woes

January 5th, 2010 | Posted by Hennie

“Oh no, which one is which? Ah, this one is the Chianti – it has a much sharper smell than the Pinot”. With a flourish, our Wine Waiter at a well-known establishment then placed the ’sharp-smelling-Chianti’ in front of Celia and the less ’sharp smelling’ Pinot in front of Grampa.

Unfortunately for this wonderful wine waiter, she happened to get them completely mixed up and Celia ended up taking a sip of Central Otago Pinot while Grampa thought old age had caught up with his nostrils (over and above the hearing and the seeing) and tasted the weirdest “Pinot” of his 85 years.

My mother used to say that a little knowledge holds great danger. She was right! I think I’ll go and have a Syrah now…