Spouse faux pas

Oct 10, 2011 6 Replies

I'm not sure what everybody's status is regarding spouse interest in wine but while my wife has a good palate after 38 years of marraige she still does stuff involving our cellar that drives me crazy! This weekend after attending a party and drinking a bit of cheap chardonnay and some red wine with dinner..2008 Orin Swift..The Prisoner...I heard her banging around in our upstairs wine rack looking for something to open at 10:45pm. I didn't think much of it as she usually sits in her office and does emails, etc until around midnight and often sips a glass of wine. I usually keep some inexpensive wines in that rack just for that purpose. When I walked out to the kitchen to turn off lights, etc. I found a bottle of 2006 Pahlmeyer Napa Valley Cabernet (a recent gift from a friend for hosting a dinner) with the foil torn off, a broken cork on the counter and a glass with cork floating in it. I asked her what she was thinking when she opened the bottle of premium Cabernet at 11:00pm and she shrugged and said.."You always tell me to open anything in the rack so I did". OK, she knew it was a gift and she put it in the rack instead of the cellar. She also knows what Pahlmeyer wine sells for..so...when I pressed her on the issue she responded by informing me that the gift was meant for her and as such she could open it whenever she wished. Good point. 5 minutes later she was sound asleep...victim of too much wine. I strained the bits of cork and poured her wine out of her glass into mine and sipped the cabernet as I contemplated the logic of women. Arrrrrgggggg!


Did anyone notice none of the rest of us share our stories of our spouse issues similar? Do you think we are simply cowards?

May I interject that I was disconcerted to find out that my wife was more of a connoisseur of red wine than me even if my knowledge of vintages and regions was greater. I don't know if I ever really admitted this :-)

Dick N wrote in news:9d1a1a0a-b038-4eff-b552- snipped-for-privacy@i15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:

I was in the hospital around 2000. When I returned home a bottle of her favorite wine was missing. A full case in the cellar only had 11 bottles. It was a 1989 Pichon Lalande. It was OK with me in the long run. I was rushed to the hospital and I guess she had to console herself.

Fred.

married but very careful what goes on the "open at will" rack. Though even then she asks- she worries about it more than me. Sorry about your loss!

You sure she wasn't angry at you? Sounds like some possible passive-aggressive behavior on her part.

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