Abe Lincoln Warned You Not to Believe What you Read About Wine Lists and Prices Online
He said it. He really did. While Abe Lincoln's most famous speech of November 1863 was delivered on the 19th day of that month, his Gettysburg Address simply did not measure up in clairvoyance to his speech delivered just the day before where he warned his listeners that in the 21st Century, they should not believe everything they read on the internet. In particular, and relevant to us, he told the crowd that more than 150 years later, the internet would be littered with a strange hybrid of humans known as influencers and that one of the areas on which they claimed expertise would be the pricing on restaurant wine lists. Why do I write about this today? Why not? Well the real reason is that yesterday evening, an instagram reel by an influencer was shared with me that purported to tell you what to stay away from on wine lists. Madame Influencer made her case. And she supported her case with ... her case. For those who need to know, she said that frequenters of restaurants should st...