Austrian hotel has world's best wine list

[garbon]

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).

My lunch break is flexible and while they probably would frown on it - I haven't had any issues at any job if I have a glass at lunch.

[Syt]

Oh, I doubt anyone would raise a stink over it when going for lunch, but I meant drinking within the office's premises.

And yeah, I miss my flexible lunch hours/flexible work hours.

[Ideologue]

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

So, a wine list is like a brothel?

[Admiral Yi]

Totally different.

[Monoriu]

I am just at a loss when a waiter asks me what kind of apperitif I would like to have when I sit down at the table.  I am the kind of person who is totally dependent on the menu to make choices.  If you don't give me the drink list but ask me what I'd like to have, the most I can answer is either tap water or orange juice. 

[Admiral Yi]

Here's a crazy thought for you Mono: think back to one of those times when they gave you a drink list and you ordered from it, and order the same thing the next time you don't have a drink list.

[Monoriu]

Here's a crazy thought for you Mono: think back to one of those times when they gave you a drink list and you ordered from it, and order the same thing the next time you don't have a drink list.

My problem is I don't remember the names of the drinks    I eat out 9 times per week, but it is once in a blue moon that I order drinks (usually, it is because I go to an Indian/Thai restaurant and the food is too spicy).  The few times I do, my thought process is: look for non-alchoholic cocktails - ok so this one is mainly peach, this one is strawberry, this one is lemon and orange - waiter, I like the strawberry one *points at drink list*

[Zanza]

When you don't know what to order, you could always ask the waiter for a suggestion.

[Monoriu]

When you don't know what to order, you could always ask the waiter for a suggestion.

I think that's the entire point of the trap.  If I ask him, he will surely suggest the most expensive one 

[Zanza]

A good waiter will suggest the one that fits your taste best. From experience, they virtually never suggest the most expensive one and actually try to find one that is fine for you.

[derspiess]

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

So, a wine list is like a brothel?

[The Minsky Moment]

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.

For a place like this, you always ask the somm for his thoughts.  No matter how much a pro you think you are, the somm is going to know more about their inventory than you.

[Monoriu]

One thing I don't understand.  Why look for the most impressive wine selection at a restaurant?  If you want the longest wine list on earth, shouldn't you be checking out the wine supermarkets? 

[The Minsky Moment]

Few supermarkets have 60,000 bottles.

And even fewer keep around significant numbers of older vintages.

[Syt]

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.

For a place like this, you always ask the somm for his thoughts.  No matter how much a pro you think you are, the somm is going to know more about their inventory than you.

Well, I wouldn't know, because this is not a place I'm likely to go to.

Though there was a collective groan around the table during a business dinner at an upscale Italian restaurant off St. Stephen's Square when our VP finance asked, for all to hear, which cheap wine the waiter would recommend.