How do you order wine at restaurant?

[Verr]

I've only just started enjoying wine, up till now I've preferred bottle beers or just soft drinks.

What would I say to the waiter/waitress if I saw this on the menu for e.g:

WHITE ZINFANDEL VENDANGE

"Just a small glass of zinfandel, please?" is that right?

I struggle with knowing which main word to say ifykwim

You say this

Brancott is lush

I only ever order via the sommelier. Obvs.

Interesting what a PP said about no-one asking for the wine list in a bar - I ALWAYS do! I'm strictly a Marlborough SB girl, with the occasional Albarino thrown in.

@Babyfoal

Clearly the correct thing to say is 'We will have the '45 Mouton en magnum, please'

PolaDeVeboise same here although I do like a Sancerre too

I also point or ask for a number.

But the other thing I do if the wine list isn't too long is order by the grape or country. This doesn't work if the wine list runs to several pages, but for a choice of 8 or 10 wines, it's usually fine to say "Please can I have the Chilean?" or "The pinot noir"

We got round a extremely expensive wine list dilemma once by ordering the only English wine on the list which happened to be one of about two affordablish wines. We were able to pretend then it was a positive decision we'd made rather than a 'gulp' decision.

Depends where you too. If you are at a very nice restaurant, then ask what they recommend with your food.

“Eeeh I’ll ave the babycham “

What would you say for this?

ROBERTO SAROTTO GAVI DI GAVI

I’d ask for “the Gavi” there, but if you said “the Roberto Sarotto”, you wouldn’t look stupid.

I'd say "I'll have a glass of the Gavi please" assuming there was no other Gavi on the list.

If there was I'd say "I'll have a glass of the Sarotto Gavi".

Italian wine is often named after the grape and the place the wine is from like Brunello di Montalcino or Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. In this case Gavi is both the name of the grape and the place it's from.

I'd say, the Gavi please.

Anyone else have a mental image of the OP BELLOWING at the waiter?

I point.

"Can I have a glass of Rioja/Merlot/Malbec please?"

I forgot about the size thing in the UK. I'm in Ireland and wine only comes in one size. A standard glass is 187ml.