A sunshiny day like today is a great day for wine tasting.
However, I got soaked for extra charges for wine at a restaurant earlier in the
week.
My best consumer experience: Tasting wine at local wineries
Recently, I was lucky and won $25 in a drawing at the
Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater Visitor & Convention Bureau to spend at a winery on
the South Sound Winery Trail.
I read about the local wineries, and selected two. My friend
Cynthia went with me.
We started at Stottle Winery in Lacey. Stottle rhymes with
bottle.
Five tastes were $5. I liked the 2011 Rose of Sangiovese best. Then the server offered a
taste of a dessert wine, 2011 Lucille Late Harvest Viognier. It was really sweet,
and I could visualize enjoying it with a nice chocolate dessert. I bought that,
too.
Next, we went to the Medicine Creek Winery. The tasting
room, wine processing area, and barrel room are located in a remodeled barn.
The Medicine Creek Winery web site says, “Visiting the
award-wining tasting room is like stepping back in time to a 1800s vintage New
Orleans brothel.”
I liked the 2007 Cabernet Franc best.
I’m looking forward to enjoying the wines I got today with
friends.
My worst consumer experience: Being overcharged for wine at
a restaurant
After a meeting, I went with some friends to a restaurant to
have a drink.
When I went up to the bar to order a glass of wine, a friend
asked the waitress to put it on his bill.
After drinking the glass of wine, I went to get another one.
The waitress handed me a bill for $4.50. I added $1 for a tip, and signed the
credit card slip.
Today, when I looked at my credit card statement, I saw a
charge for $10.50 for the wine.
When I called about it, I was told the owner would call me
back about it. I hope I can get it straightened out. I don’t want to pay a
second time for a glass of wine my friend paid for.
