Words to the wise wine drinker: avoid wines that are substantially marked down at Spec’s, unless you want to waste your money, of course.
Recently in the Spec’s on Smith Street where I have shopped for years, I was amazed at the number of wines in the sales or closeout section. I instinctively shudder when I see those wines: I had been burned far too many times thinking I had gotten a deal only to drink the wine that inevitably turned out to be far past prime or worse. Every single wine I’ve purchased over the years on steep discount at Spec’s has been bad. Every single one. I certainly don’t do it anymore. And it might be physically impossible for me to purchase one of these wines now, as deeply scarred as I’ve been.
Words to the wise wine drinker: avoid wines that are substantially marked down at Spec’s, unless you want to waste your money, of course.
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AuthorMike Riccetti is a longtime Houston-based food writer and former editor for Zagat, and not incidentally the author of three editions of Houston Dining on the Cheap. Archives
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