You have wanted this person for ages and finally you get a date! You are both wearing your best designer gear; it is a gorgeous restaurant and the menu is absolutely mouth watering and best of all you are being treated because it is your birthday. All is going well until your companion leans over and murmurs in your ear the magic words 'I will let you choose the wine'

 

You could be entertaining a business client who leaves the choice of wine bottle in your supposedly capable hands.

 

Romance or business, the outcome is the same. You go through the motions of being knowledgeable and finally choose one you know how to pronounce. Or, even worse, a variety your Dad drinks, little do you know he gets it from the supermarket for 40p a litre in a plastic bottle and decants it before you arrive. And the result is a tear inducing bitter concoction that you wouldn't give to your cat to use as a mouthwash. Either that or a bland tasteless number that might just as well be coloured water. You also get a very disappointed date or client, not to mention a tarnished image as a professional sophisticated person of the world.