Offline protocol

If you bring a special bottle to an offline as the owner of the wine who might have had it for years or decades is it expected you get a bigger pour of your wine compared to others ? or should all pours be equal ? what if the bottle is above its class and price point does that change anything ? ie you brought SE everyone else brought BTK cabs

I was at a wine dinner with a guy who brought a bottle of Grange. He poured about a quarter of the bottle in his glass and then passed it around the table of eight. I knew immediately I would never share a table with him again. The only classy thing to do is share the bottle equally.

It’s pretty simple…if you want a big pour, invite fewer people.

If there are 10 or 12, everyone is going to get a half glass. If you don’t like that you have three options:

1. Bring a magnum
2. Bring two bottles of the wine
3. Don’t go

Probably most of us have run into the selfish oaf, or the person who does not step up. They are just never invited back.

Pretty unequivocally for me here: what you bring, you share…equally. If the owner acts out of accord with that principle, then I’d not want them in my group.

The obvious solution is to bring a wine that you think will have the least cachet of anything there. That way you’re guaranteed to be on the winning side of this trade.

All you really need to know about offlines you should have learned in kindergarten.

-Al

Pull the little girls’ hair, wrestle graham crackers away from the boy, and get spanked often?

I suppose we all drew our own lessons from kindergarten.

-Al

Good. I didn’t go so I have an excuse.

As it turns out, I didn’t go to kindergarten, either. It’s set me back my entire life.

-Al

Perhaps you should stay home with a paper bag and a straw.
I’m just sayin’, you might be happier . . . .

Mrs. Barnhouse was my first true love! She tried to turn me into a proper gentleman.

I agree, even though that is a form of socialism.

That Grange incident sounds like wine tasting with Ayn Rand.

My vote: Gracious samsies!!!

I still do those things just so I can get the spankings.

Equal pours for everyone is the way to do it. If you want more for yourself, keep it at home.

It’s Christmas Eve so I’m fighting back the response the question deserves. Suffice to say that “mine’s bigger” is not an offline theme that appeals me.

Robert’s code name for his kink dungeon is “kindergarten”

Don’t brings wines to dinner you do not want to share equally. If you have something you want to sit with while enjoying a generous pour, don’t bring it to a dinner where you cannot do that without looking like you are hoarding.

For me, offlines are about sharing with each other, so the thought of what is described seems the very opposite of the concept of an offline.

However, should that person feel strongly about it, I’d recommend they buy a coravin, pungo or similar, then at the offline take another bottle along as normal, but also offer the half-finished & re-sealed ‘fancy’ bottle around as a bonus taste. They get more than their full glass out of the bottle, yet will also come across as especially generous (rather than the opposite).

Equal pours, and with little regard to who brought what, what is “special”, etc. Level playing field for the wines and the participants.

Very simple - equal pours of all wines for everyone.