
If you're from a wine country venue like Napa, or Sonoma, you're supposed to know your wines and bring the good stuff to parties and gatherings.
This is often truest when you're in mixed company with people from afar, and one of my Napa friends, Carl, related this story to me the other day about a man he encountered often on his trips who considered himself a connoisseur and kept bugging him to bring wines of higher caliber. But this person was equating price with quality. Here's how Carl dealt with him.
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