"Sometimes you can make a small difference in somebody's evening with the right bottle.
And yet if you choose the right bottle, it lacks for none of the refinement of an XO cognac.
I suppose for the first course, that aubergine salad, I can manage to lay my hand on the right bottle.
The developers of Cor.kz say their bar code scanner delivers the right bottle roughly 65 percent of the time, but in my testing, at least, that figure seemed high by about 15 percentage points.
The owner of Table Wine, a specialty shop tucked in among older mom-and-pop stores on 37th Avenue, is known to recommend just the right bottle for dinner parties.
But if you study the bottle to make sure that the vintage is correct and the producer is the one that you ordered, you not only ensure that you get the right bottle, but if you can catch a mistake, which often happens, that's major points.
"Before, the problem was we put a lot of pressure on the pharmacy staff to pull the right bottle, but there were too many chances to pull the wrong one," he explains.
Whether you are looking for powerful, new-wave reds, traditional reds with elegance and grace, or good values from a wide range of grape varieties, count on the country's diverse and dynamic bodegas to put just the right bottle on your table.
Smoked fish, it turns out, also happens to be a fascinating foil for the right bottle.
Pribble: I don't have the right bottle of wine to go with my dinner.
