"get out of jail free card "

Enjoying low priced wine

Recently I have been enjoying wines of a lower price, I come from a  background where the first wines I tried were cheap and i've slowly drank my way up to Haut Brion and Margaux. Rather than some people i've met that started on 1st Growths.

But recently I have tried some great wines at prices that literaly blow me away, and it makes the wines taste better after I've learnt the price. I'll tell you what I mean, if someone gave you a bottle of Haut Brion 1990 and asked what do you think, you say "yes, its very nice", but they tell you its only $2,000. It doesn't make it taste better, but when I have a bottle of wine that I taste and then grade in my head the wine is about $200. Then i'm told its only $80, it just makes the wine taste even better.  

These wines on my wine list are great sellers, if a guest is not sure what to have then I go straight for my "get out of jail free card " the wines are always $200-$300 cheaper than the 2-3 wines the guest was contemplating. So they snap up my recomendation and its a winner, total repect allround

no cheating and no con.

These are the wines that can't make it into the higher tier, i think the winery sensibly decides to charge less so they can make it on to the wine list as a "get out of jail free card " for the sommelier.

I have a few on the list and always looking for more, i will never tell what they are because their my own "get out of jail free card " .. I'm sure all sommeliers have a few

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