Midlife wrote:

> Not sure I understand the fairness of <"If you seem like a serious wine
> drinker, they don't charge for tasting their single vineyard PN's">. What
> makes you "seem like a serious wine drinker"? Seems like it could be
> capricious and arbitrary. It'd be much more fair to comp the tasting if you
> buy $X at the winery, or are a club member. If I were tasting and saw
> someone get comped for just "seeming more serious" I think I'd be really
> ****ed off. Not that I haven't been to tasting rooms where they'll bring
> out library wines, reserves or offer barrel tasting if you seem interested
> and reasonably knowledgeable. But they offer it to everyone there at the
> time, not selectively.
>

I've had exactly the same experience as you, but I've found that often
times the staff doesn't charge me for tasting those library wines.
Whether they charged anyone else, I couldn't honestly say, but I do feel
that most tasting room staffs do make the distinction between partygoers
with no serious interest in the wine and someone who knows the winery
and the wines and is interested in learning something (and/or making a
purchase).

Mark Lipton
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