Matthew Citriglia's blog

I was seated at a upscale Italian restaurant. They had a fairly extensive wine list which looked like fun. Within a few minutes the server, whom from this point forward I will call SPEEDY, stops buy and says the sommelier will be over to talk wine, gives us specials and asks about water. As SPEEDY leaves the sommelier comes by, we talk wine, and I order a bottle of Bellavista. This took maybe 4 or 5 minutes as we discussed several options.

With such poor education done on wine service, I have seen many bizarre ways of opening a bottle of wine. This latest opening was priceless. I wish I had a camera! Here I am at dinner with three female sales representatives at a fairly casual restaurant. The food is always good but the service is average at best. I order a bottle of wine and male server returns to the head of the four top with the wine.