Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did it ever occur to this group that sometimes people don't know much about wine. When someone brings me a gift, I am happy and gracious. Get a grip.

Did you bring the yellowtail or Charles shaw last night? You need to lighten up, lady. I don't think any guests were tossed from the party for bringing cheap wine.

New poster here: Actually, you're the one who needs to lighten up. Or work on your comprehension skills. No, wait: both. Yes, work very hard on both.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I serve my wine and I save the crappy bottles for neighborhood happy hours or nights when I'm too hammered to care that I'm drinking yellowtail late night.

This, exactly. My understanding of a hostess gift is that it's for the hosts to enjoy at a later date not to feel obligated to share with guests on the spot.

+1. If it's a large crowd, I leave these bottles out with the others I might open during the course of an evening. We usually throw fairly casual parties so our friends feel comfortable opening a bottle when needed.

As for why someone might bring Charles Shaw or Yellowtail, they are recognizable names. For folks who don't know much about wine and want to bring some as a hostess gift, they'll likely tend to bring something with a familiar name. They might not remember whether they heard the name in a good context or bad.

Anonymous wrote:Did it ever occur to this group that sometimes people don't know much about wine. When someone brings me a gift, I am happy and gracious. Get a grip.

Did you bring the yellowtail or Charles shaw last night? You need to lighten up, lady. I don't think any guests were tossed from the party for bringing cheap wine.

If they are bringing Charles Shaw or Yellowtail or Barefoot, they aren't wine drinkers and won't drink whatever you serve anyway. They're just doing it to be polite. Serve what you had planned, thank them for their wine and then just throw it out.

Did it ever occur to this group that sometimes people don't know much about wine. When someone brings me a gift, I am happy and gracious. Get a grip.

If you're really a wine snob, you will have carefully selected wines to complement the food you're serving.

After thanking your guests the gift wine goes into the pantry or whatever.

Then, you can do whatever you want with it, including tossing it if it's approaching undrinkable.

Who brings 2 buck chuck to a dinner party. Are you 25?

I usually cook with it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I serve my wine and I save the crappy bottles for neighborhood happy hours or nights when I'm too hammered to care that I'm drinking yellowtail late night.

This, exactly. My understanding of a hostess gift is that it's for the hosts to enjoy at a later date not to feel obligated to share with guests on the spot.

Agree and agree.

We serve what we planned to serve. Of course you aren't obligated to serve what people brought. Although I can't believe people would bring Charles shaw. We've never had that. Usually friends bring a pretty nice wine. If it's cheap but drinkable we'll still have it during the week. If it's undrinkable we'll take it to a potluck as a second bottle.

Anonymous wrote:I serve my wine and I save the crappy bottles for neighborhood happy hours or nights when I'm too hammered to care that I'm drinking yellowtail late night.

This, exactly. My understanding of a hostess gift is that it's for the hosts to enjoy at a later date not to feel obligated to share with guests on the spot.

We also serve our wine. Or we open both bottles and let guests choose (if we have a lot of guests). I never feel obligated to open and drink a bottle of wine I don't think I'll like.

I serve my wine and I save the crappy bottles for neighborhood happy hours or nights when I'm too hammered to care that I'm drinking yellowtail late night.

Surely you know you don't serve the wine brought as a gift.

what do you do when people bring crappy wine to your house?? This has happened to me a lot recently. We really like good wine, and we have good wine and are happy to share. But when someone brings a bottle, we feel somewhat obligated to serve it. But it kills me-- I have a nice wine I am planning to serve, and then end up serving Charles Shaw or Yellowtail. (I tolerate the Yellowtail better than the Charles Shaw).