I am a wine lover and wines are as important as food for my dinner.
I just flew to/from HND in J and the ticket cost is around HK30,000. A very expensive ticket for a 4 hours flight. But great to have the longhaul 77W.
We all know how bad the wines have become on CX J. The two French wines (Vire-Clesse white and Graves de Vayres red) are from minor French wine region and bordering the undrinkable. I would never buy such mediocre wines for my daily family dinner.

But I was extremely happy to see the Chateau de Rayne Vigneau 2009, !er Grand Cru Classe de Sauternes on the menu as dessert wine. This is a great wine (and expensive) that I also like to have as aperitif. It has been mentioned in the thread about new longhaul catering in J, but I was happy that it was also available on this expensive flight-with-F regional route.

But they had not loaded it, only port was available. The purser came to apologize and she recognized me from a flight a couple of weeks before. She mentioned that this was not the first time that it did not get loaded. When it is, it seems that they only load one bottle for F and J pax.

My post is not to arguing about the general wine quality currently served on CX. But having an excellent wine on the printed menu but not available seems to be a common occurence and not a trick that I would have been expecting from CX. It is just like when they list some excellent wines on their "wines of the month", but only have the cheapest (and mediocre) wine on the list offered on most flights.