Is ordering wine by the glass (not a bottle) at restaurants sort of a cheapskate move?

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Anonymous wrote:My wino friends say they're wary about glasses because you don't know when the bottle was opened. But they're also rich, so it's nothing for them to casually order a $100 to 300 bottle.

A bottle of wine basically has four pours, give or take. A crowded restaurant likely has multiple people ordering a single glass, and they tend to only offer glass servings or two or three varieties. So the odds of getting wine poured from a bottle opened days ago are ridiculously small. And people who actually verbalize fear about this are insufferable twatwaffles who need to choke on their appetizer and die at the table because they have nothing of value to offer humanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will often order a bottle simply because there is usually a better selection by the bottle, and even if one wine is available either way it's usually nearly the same price for 2 glasses as it is to get a bottle. [b]Restaurant markups on wine are huge, especially by the glass.

Not cheapskate at all to order just a glass, though, if that's what you want. We'll do that if we want different kinds.

Wine is fine for a while after it's been opened. I wouldn't worry about it being freshly opened, especially if the restaurant is busy enough to have decent turnover.

Wow I haven’t found this to be true at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I could never finish a whole bottle of wine, and often DH and I don’t drink the same kind. It’s not cheapskate to order by the glass.

How do you know if the wine is freshly opened? Is that a concern?

You send it back if it tastes bad. If it's a nice restaurant, the sommelier will taste it first.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We will often order a bottle simply because there is usually a better selection by the bottle, and even if one wine is available either way it's usually nearly the same price for 2 glasses as it is to get a bottle. [b]Restaurant markups on wine are huge, especially by the glass.

Not cheapskate at all to order just a glass, though, if that's what you want. We'll do that if we want different kinds.

Wine is fine for a while after it's been opened. I wouldn't worry about it being freshly opened, especially if the restaurant is busy enough to have decent turnover.

Wow I haven’t found this to be true at all.

What part?

[Anonymous]

Wouldn’t your wino friends just ask for a taste and then order the glass? Or bring their own bottle? If they’re so worried about wine by the glass even though it’s customary to send back a bad glass, I would think they are also worried the wines by the bottle haven’t been properly cellared.

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Anonymous wrote:The only time I'll order a bottle is if there's several of us drinking it. I can't fathom ordering a bottle of wine for myself solely because I was concerned about it being fresh (?). If the glass tasted off, I'd send it back. NBD.

This. I don't understand people who have anxiety about sending things back if it's off or not what you ordered. I think it's the whole "Karen" thing but please, you're an adult. Stand up for yourself and don't literally throw away money because you don't want to engage in something mildly uncomfortable. As long as you are polite there is nothing wrong with it.

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Anonymous wrote:My wino friends say they're wary about glasses because you don't know when the bottle was opened. But they're also rich, so it's nothing for them to casually order a $100 to 300 bottle.

Most restaurants only have a few wines by glass on offer, so with fewer choices, they are turning it over quickly.

This. I order by the glass because I don't want to get a DUI.

[Anonymous]

God no. My DH doesn’t like wine and I can’t have more than two glasses without a hammering headache the next day, so I pretty much only order by the glass.

Fwiw I worked in very high-end restaurants in my twenties and never gave it a second thought whether a person ordered a bottle v a glass - what mattered is that they ordered alcohol, which pushes the bill up!

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I find a lot of reds taste better after being open a little while. Anything to that?

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I don't care. I'm not ordering a bottle of wine if I only want one or two glasses, unless others at the table are interested in splitting. In my experience, if you order from the selection of wines by the glass at a restaurant that is decent (and thus decently busy) the bottle is unlikely to have sat open for long.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My wino friends say they're wary about glasses because you don't know when the bottle was opened. But they're also rich, so it's nothing for them to casually order a $100 to 300 bottle.

A bottle of wine basically has four pours, give or take. A crowded restaurant likely has multiple people ordering a single glass, and they tend to only offer glass servings or two or three varieties. So the odds of getting wine poured from a bottle opened days ago are ridiculously small. And people who actually verbalize fear about this are insufferable twatwaffles who need to choke on their appetizer and die at the table because they have nothing of value to offer humanity.

This is far from true. Most restaurants I go to have a long list of wines avail by the glass. Far more than "two or two," more like a dozen plus.