Half-bottles

[Samuel Checker]

We had dinner over the weekend at a terrific restaurant in Baltimore
County, Md.: the Milton Inn. It's a 1740s mansion that's been doing
business since the 1940s.
http://www.miltoninn.com/

One feature that we took advantage of was the collection of
half-bottles on their list. Nowhere near as extensive as the full
list, of course, but a better selection than the wines by the glass.
Since there were only the two of us dining, we got to have both a
half-bottle of Moët et Chandon for starters, and a half-bottle of E.
Guigal's 2001 Chateauneuf de Pape with the main course. And drive home
safely.

I think I've said before that we keep a couple of splits of champagne
around the house for emergency use, but this is the first time I've
seen a restaurant make use of them so well. And I guess I should
mention that just about everything on the menu had lump crabmeat on
top of it, including the crabcakes. So that about did it for me.

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Just as a follow-up, a co-worker who has the fortune to live in Jersey
mail-ordered half-bottles of D'Arenberg's "Laughing Magpie" Shiraz/
Viognier recently. This is a wine rated 91 points (http://
www.carlorussowine.com/151842?id=Aw7at3xx&mv_pc=68 - this is an
informational site, not the site that sold it) but it's also $90 a
bottle, so with an online sale, the co-worker was able to sample the
good stuff without risking as much if it turned out to be not to her
taste.

On Jun 6, 8:41 am, "Samuel Checker" <spam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We had dinner over the weekend at a terrific restaurant in Baltimore
> County, Md.: the Milton Inn. It's a 1740s mansion that's been doing

> business since the 1940s.http://www.miltoninn.com/