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AIBU to expect visitors to bring a decent bottle of wine with them.

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Mushypeasandchipstogo · 04/01/2015 20:40

We have had lots of friends and relatives over to stay and for dinner over Christmas. It is lovely to see them all but why do they always bring a totally crap bottle of New World wine with them?
I have in my kitchen 10 bottles of vile red and white wine. Should I pour it all down the sink, use it for cooking or give it back to them next time I visit? Any other options would be considered!

OP posts:
Bluestocking · 04/01/2015 21:17

Do I know you, OP? Are you being rude about the bottle of The Ned that I brought you? I do apologise - I don't drink, but had read rave reviews about this NZ Sauvignon Blanc. I'll bring Sanatogen next time.

SweetsForMySweet · 04/01/2015 21:17

YABU. At least they bought something with them. We often receive bottles of alcohol as gifts and neither of us drink alcohol so we usually regift.

MarjorieMelon · 04/01/2015 21:17

£11.19 in Waitrose so not cheap plonk.

Only1scoop · 04/01/2015 21:17

Op this has tickled me ....

Maybe a name change? Sommelierandchipstogo??Smile

fivepounds · 04/01/2015 21:17

You tell 'em, Mushy!

FatherReboolaConundrum · 04/01/2015 21:17

Didn't know 'New World wine' was still a thing - haven't seen that term for a good 20 years. To be fair, there is some crap NZ sauvignon blanc around these days, but it's also some of the best white wine in the world. Tell us what it is OP!

missorinoco · 04/01/2015 21:18

That will be a bloody good chicken dish then!
Envy

TeaAfficionado · 04/01/2015 21:18

I really like Villa Maria (admittedly not a wine expert, but I do like it). Were I not pregnant I would happily do you a swap! But if its not to your taste, then raffle prize? Take to another party? Smile

dun1urkin · 04/01/2015 21:18

YY ill informed and snobbish

Entertaining on MN
I'm guessing not so much in RL

Are you my MIL? Grin

MarjorieMelon · 04/01/2015 21:18

£11.19 in Waitrose so not cheap plonk

Panicmode1 · 04/01/2015 21:18

At least they bought some with them. My S and BIL drink like fish and they have drunk almost every single bottle of the bloody lovely Wine Society wine my father gave me for Christmas - 8 of the 12 in two days of being here....frankly if they'd bought a bottle of New World wine I would have been grateful because it would have saved a bit of mine. (DH wasn't drinking and I had my usual 1 glass a night. We don't drink until the children are in bed, they start at 10am....!)

Monmouth · 04/01/2015 21:18

NZ Villa Maria is usually about £11.

MarjorieMelon · 04/01/2015 21:19

Not sure why it posted twice.

FatherReboolaConundrum · 04/01/2015 21:22

Cross post. OP, unless you are incredibly rich and won't drink anything costing less than £30 a bottle, I can't believe you think Villa Maria sb is 'totally crap'. But if your criteria is just which country it comes from and you only like French, Italian, and Spanish I'll swap it for some JP Chenet we were given - you'll be safe with that, it's French Grin.

Scatlett4456 · 04/01/2015 21:23

I went to a party a while back taking my favourite red, you can imagine my horror when someone said oh have this...this box is open. ( huge glass of bad red)

If it makes me a snob , I don't care, it should come out of a bottle. Open the box when everyone is pissed.

If your not sure go to Aldi spend over £6 and it will be good.

justabigdisco · 04/01/2015 21:25

Haha! You clearly know fuck all about wine if you think all 'new world' wines are shit and only like those from France, Italy and Spain. Why don't you open them, you might learn something Wink

Hoppinggreen · 04/01/2015 21:25

Blue Nun is " old world" - would that be acceptable??

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 04/01/2015 21:25

You clearly know nothing about wine. Or were you trying to be funny? Confused

Anyone who is snobby and excludes based on whole countries sounds terribly boorish. I'd bring you a bottle of Babychamp just to watch you recoil in horror and keep my naice wine at home.

Alisvolatpropiis · 04/01/2015 21:25

Yabu

Mind I detest Rioja which is apparently the uk's favourite red wine so perhaps I'm doing wine all wrong.

PineappleLump · 04/01/2015 21:25

I too am dying to know what the bottle is.

There are certainly some poor or badly made NZ savs out there, and just because it's a kiwi sauvignon, it is no guarantee of quality.

Perhaps you just don't enjoy the new world style? Or perhaps you just like to think you're a bit of a 'wine snob'? The fact that you dismissed it as crap but then had to check what the grape actually was, suggests you are not.

KERALA1 · 04/01/2015 21:26

Snobbish and ungrateful?!? Op is hosting them which involves tidying and cleaning house, planning menu, buying food and drink, cooking it, chatting and being a good hostess then clearing up. And they bring a cheap bottle of wine!!

Op feel your pain - I wince internally when guests bring average red and spend evening necking our champagne...especially those that rarely if ever host themselves...

FoodieToo · 04/01/2015 21:27

You don't sound like a wine snob at all. Anyone who writes off all 'new world wines' as ' totally crap' is surely ignorant rather than educated ?

Nothavingfunrightnow · 04/01/2015 21:28

NZ Villa Maria SB....

You have NO clue, OP!

Longdistance · 04/01/2015 21:28

I thought you'd say it was Nobilo NZ SB, phew.

That's the thing I missed in Oz when we lived there, was decent wine. A lot of the stuff was really tart, and would have been better on your chips. However, I did sift through quite a lot a few bottles to find the decent stuff I liked.

I must admit, I'm a wine snob. In my previous career, it was part of my job to sample wines. I have a lovely Pouilly Fume waiting to be drunk, but January's dry.

And don't talk to me about Echo Falls Envy

Get the wine, and re gift, donate, put on chips...

RJnomore · 04/01/2015 21:28

You can't really go wrong with a nz Sauvignon tbh.

Not THAT wrong anyway.

I prefer Italian wine these days but I would never diss anyone who brought me a bottle - if assume either they bought me what they would like, or weren't wine drinkers and just had a good stab at it but either way, I'd appreciate the thought. And am I the only one that would serve the bottle they brought at the meal they were at?