The ‘wine friend’ is a curious role to play. It’s never a part you audition for, but is thrust on you by those around you as soon as they hear you speak a bit of French, or you let slip that you understand orange wine.
Soon, you’re typecast in every culinary interaction, and the sight of you holding a wine menu is as commonplace as Seth Rogen with a spliff or Jason Statham with his shirt off. Henceforth, friends will take a cursory glance at the list, raise their eyebrows and say something well-meaning like: ‘Oh, I wouldn’t dare choose, we’ll let the wine expert order’.
