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Tasting in a restaurant

When ordering wine in a restaurant, it is often customary to taste it.

Of course, this is (correct me if I'm wrong) purely to see if the wine has not gone bad, whether you like the taste or not is not their problem.

The sommelier often comes to me to show the bottle, and I'm always stumped what to do as they often don't move until they get a response. 9/10 times I just check whether the wine i have ordered also matches the bottle in their hand. But what do you say?

"Yeah, nice bottle", "That looks like the one I ordered", "Thank you"?

What is the custom in this situation?





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