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Greetings inmates. I just wanted to see what you think about the following scenario.For Thanksgiving last week, my wife and I had her parents and her brother & his wife over for dinner. It was our "first" Thanksgiving in that we had just bought our first house earlier this year and it was our first time for preparing the meal. Because it was a holiday and a special occasion to boot, we'd picked out a fairly decent wine for dinner (Estancia Meritage). We normally just try to find good wines in the $10-$14 range, but we'd had this at a restaurant and enjoyed it. Anyway, her brother and his wife showed up to dinner with two double-bottles of "not-quite-jug-wine-but-close" - one was a cabernet and one was a chardonnay. Both were chilled ice-cold. They did have corks though, so they weren't really jug wines.
Now I believe that proper etiquette is that one should always open a bottle that a guest brings. And they had expressed a desire to have red wine with dinner. But since there were only 6 of us (and only 4 were having wine), there was no way that we could open their huge bottle and still be able to open the bottle that my wife and I had picked out for dinner. And I don't think it would have been right to open both, right? So what do you do? Do you follow etiquette and open their bottle, or do you eschew etiquette (delicately of course!) and find a way to open the bottle you'd planned on originally?
Remember, in real-time this all happens in about 10 seconds. So you have to decide what to do quickly but gracefully! I'll let you know what we did in a little bit, but I'm curious to hear what you have to say first.
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