When Ordering Wine at a Restaurant, Use the Most Expensive Entree as a Baseline

Restaurant wine lists filled with wines you've never heard about in a wide range of prices are just daunting. If you want to order a quality bottle of wine that is a good value, Real Simple suggests taking a look at the prices of the entrees as a guide.

The weblog cites Andrea Immer, host of the Fine Living Network's Simply Wine, for this recommendation:

A good rule of thumb is to take the price of the most expensive entree as a baseline and then go up to about 50 percent more than that. If it's $18 for the steak, your ballpark should be $18 to $27.

The reason is restaurants work hardest to find quality wines in the price range of those entrees, since they assume people will pay about the price of the entree for a bottle.

Another helpful tip in this "instant wine smarts" slideshow is to ask for a taste if you're ordering just a glass. You might even score half a glass for free this way. Sweet!

Check out the rest of the wine tips at the link below.

Instant Wine Smarts | Real Simple

Photo by Donna Sutton

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