Austrian hotel has world's best wine list

[Syt]

Btw, it's Grüner Veltliner. Grün, or "gruner" being the color.

[CountDeMoney]

I want to know what planning staffer in the 15th USAAF during the war managed to miss targeting that hotel and all its wine bullshit we have to listen to now.

[The Minsky Moment]

No one made you clink the link.
I'm sure if you asked nicely they could dig up some Bushmills for you.

[Gups]

No one made you clink the link.
I'm sure if you asked nicely they could dig up some Bushmills for you.

That's protestant whisky.

[Syt]

I want to know what planning staffer in the 15th USAAF during the war managed to miss targeting that hotel and all its wine bullshit we have to listen to now.

It was actually hit by bombs in WW2.

[Ed Anger]

Where are all the financial scolds who get on my back about buying blu-rays now?

You got a problem bub?

[CountDeMoney]

I want to know what planning staffer in the 15th USAAF during the war managed to miss targeting that hotel and all its wine bullshit we have to listen to now.

It was actually hit by bombs in WW2.

Obviously not enough to penetrate the wine douchebag bunker.

[The Minsky Moment]

Obviously not enough to penetrate the wine douchebag bunker.

As between that bunker and the one for the actual Austrians, the wine bunker was deemed higher priority to protect.

[Monoriu]

I think they need to do something about the formats of wine lists.  For someone who knows next to nothing about wine, I usually give up when I reach page 2.  The prices are too scary, the names mean nothing, the geographic regions also do zilch to me.  As a way to convince people to buy wine, it is totally user-unfriendly. 

First of all, we need executive summaries.  There is no way I am going to read every line in a 10-page drink list.  2 pages of your best stuff please.  Or at least have something like a table of contents or index.  The current format is like a website without a search button.  They don't give people 30-page food menus, then why give people 30-page drink lists?  The best solution I have seen is that some restaurants add a page in front of the food menu on the recommended drinks. 

Next, we need information.  Say, Osso Bucco.  I know what Osso Bucco is, but a lot of people don't.  You don't just write Osso Bucco and the price in the food menu, right?  There is usually a line below the name giving a general idea on what it is, and the major ingredients.  The same should be done for drink lists.  There needs to be some explanation on the general properties of a drink.  They've figured out how to do food menus right, but somehow not for drinks. 

I know somebody will probably say "ask the waiter".  It works in theory, but imagine this - at 1:00pm in the central business district, where everybody is in a hurry to rush back to the office at 2:00pm, and 6 tables have raised their hands to place their orders at the same time, your expert waiters won't have time for them.  It is a warzone, and it needs to be treated as one. 

[sbr]

Why are you drinking wine at lunch?

[garbon]

Why are you drinking wine at lunch?

Why wouldn't one be?

[Monoriu]

Why are you drinking wine at lunch?

I don't.  I don't even drink wine for dinner.  I just think the drink list format can be improved as a means to convince people to buy drinks.

[Syt]

Why are you drinking wine at lunch?

Why wouldn't one be?

I only have a half hour lunch break, which is usually not long enough to go to a restaurant. And they frown on drinking at the office (unless birthday celebration).

[Syt]

Why are you drinking wine at lunch?

I don't.  I don't even drink wine for dinner.  I just think the drink list format can be improved as a means to convince people to buy drinks.

Well, in a place like this, unless you're  a wino wine connoisseur or Frasier/Niles Crane, most people will ask the sommelier for advice and recommendations.

[Admiral Yi]

I would do the same thing I do with any wine list: color, region, then price.