Sometimes when you want to have wine with your meal, the restaurant wine list just fails to give you the choice of a suitable wine. It's not just a matter of whether their mark-up is acceptable, or even whether they have got something to offer at the price range of your choice, sometimes there are just no suitable wines in the list. Many a times, the white selection is more limited than the reds both here and elsewhere in Asia.
We went to a restaurant specializing in hotpot meals in Tokyo and ordered a seafood hotpot with a large emphasis on oysters. As it was Beaujolais Nouveau season, that was the main wine on offer (perhaps the only one). Having just been shopping, I decided to go back to one of the previous retailers and got a bottle of Premier Cru Chablis which went much better with what we had ordered than their Beaujolais Nouveau.
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