Originally Posted by
salut0
I've too often been at people's tables where the only wine they serve throughout the meal is a Moscato d'Asti
This is one of Mrs. PVDProf's favorites. More recently, she's taken to drinking
<shudder> Sutter Home Moscato as table wine. As a (still) moscato, it is not terrible, but it is terrible cheap (<$5), so I can't complain (but I do drink something else).
What surprises me is the number of non-regular wine drinkers who try it and love it. I held a blind "intro to varietals" wine tasting for some friends a while ago and slipped the SHM in (as a joke, really), but almost everyone liked it and it was the favorite of almost half the attendees. From the perspective of showing them something they enjoy and can enjoy in the future, the tasting was a success.
(Personally, I see this as a gateway drug, and hope that in ten years, Mrs PVDProf will acquire a taste for drier wines split a bottle of something really good with me. For the moment, I can only order glasses when we go out to dinner.)