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2011-07-05
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Having read a local newspaper article about the emphasis this place puts on good wine, I went with a friend to check it out.Reaction: Big Disappointment. 1) They have a wine machine to dispense drinks by the glass, of wine that is isolated from the air and therefore better preserved. There were something like 10 bottles of wine in the machine.......but they don't use it. I sat in the bar for about 2 hours and never saw the machine used. A customer who wants to use it is told he has to po
Reaction: Big Disappointment.
1) They have a wine machine to dispense drinks by the glass, of wine that is isolated from the air and therefore better preserved. There were something like 10 bottles of wine in the machine.......but they don't use it. I sat in the bar for about 2 hours and never saw the machine used. A customer who wants to use it is told he has to pony up $500 for a card, so "why don't you just drink the wine from the bar instead."
2) The wine from the bar is stored in bottles with vac-u-vin stoppers, but the staff never used the vacuum pumper, so they might as well have been open to the air. The wine from those bottles reflected the lack of care; I drank one white and one red and both were slightly "off" already.
3) The bar has one of those open-front affairs, which (on a hot and muggy night) made the bar uncomfortably humid (like so many elsewhere in HK) and allowed us to smell the smoke wafting in from the smokers stationed at tables right outside.
4) We looked at the menu of "bar snacks" which consisted mostly of full dishes (things like burgers) with prices starting about $75. Too much for bar snacks, IMHO. So we didn't eat.
5) Staff was not particularly friendly or welcoming. I guess their newness was showing -- they didn't seem to know what was going on.
The moral of the story is that it takes more than hype to make a decent wine bar, and this place is long on the hype but short on everything else.
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