Surfer's Wave

For many years people thought that only cheap wine had a screw top, but going green has hit the wine industry as well and many people don’t realize that we are seeing many many wines internationally and domestically coming to us with screw top caps.

Alas alack some of our customers unaware of this trend seem to have many preconceived ideas about this new trend.

Last Friday evening, a woman came in with what we determined was her son and daughter in law for dinner. They ordered a bottle of Bonny Doon Rose. When the bottled arrived at the table the Mother saw that the wine was screw top and from Santa Cruz. She seemed to believe that she would be sick if she drank the wine because it was screw top and that the only thing that happened in Santa Cruz was surfing and that no good wine could possibly come from there. So, she had a diet coke and refused to drink any wine.

Sometimes, folks come to our restaurant thinking they well, know more than we do about wine. Sometimes people do, but for the most part, we have a very good grasp on what we are selling. Last Saturday, someone insisted that our French Riesling should have bubbles. Now being open to a mistake, I did take time to double check to make certain one can't buy a Riesling with bubbles and in fact, no bubbles in Riesling everybody. Where our patron got that idea and then refused to accept our information that they don't have bubbles, I really don't know.

Finally, my favorite this week was..... "Excuse me, I'd like a Mimosa refill please." I guess they thought they were in a buffet....

Really everybody, trust us..., we want to make you happy. Maybe for April Fools Day, I should try to sell a made up bottle of some sort. I know, I will try to sell a screw top bottle of Riesling and call it our newest sparkling white from Santa Cruz, and call it Surfer's Wave. Nah, that's not nice!