Your good friends from the neighborhood invite you over for casual dinner before a concert.
They know you are a wine geek and they ask you to bring over some “extra nice” bottles of wine to have with their thoughtfully prepared meal. They are good cooks.
The problem is that you know their stemware is mediocre. Not jelly jars but thick-lipped glasses you might see at a catered university lunch.
So the annoying wine snob voice starts ringing in your head:
Do I bring so-so wines because the glasses will diminish their enjoyment, at least mine!
Do I bring good wines as requested and just let it go and just enjoy the wines for what they are — even in less than ideal stems?
Do I bring along 6 stems as well at the risk of looking like complete snob and offending the sensibilities of our hosts?
Do I, god forbid, bring my own stem and make a few self-deprecating jokes about my OCD tendencies when it comes to my “hobby”?
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Do I just bring a six-pack of Pliny the Elder instead?
Discuss amongst yourselves!
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