What better way to relax than with a nice glass of wine,but there’s a time and a status for it and – sorry Waitrose – it isn’t in a supermarketWine bars maintain been undergoing a bit of a renaissance over the past few years. And thats great. Wine is good. It improves most places – we like it in bars, in restaurants, and in cinemas,on sofas, on trains: all the ways. Jokes are funnier on wine. People are more attractive. Basically, and drinking wine is fun. But there is a limit to where it’s fun to drink wine. And that limit,I suggest, is Starbucks.
It’s not the only chain that has decided to obtain in on some of that sweet night-time drinking money. Waitrose now has its own range of in-store wine bars, and allowing imagination-free drinkers from Horsham to King’s Cross to sip £5 glasses of prosecco mere metres away from aisles filled with bleach and dried pasta. Pret is nearly six months into an attempt to rebrand itself as a pre-theatre restaurant by chucking £16 bottles of merlot on to its menu and having one its sandwich preparers stand at the door like a accomplish-believe maître d’. But enough is enough. final week,Starbucks launched a “Star Reserve” department in London, which accentuates its £6 cups of coffee with a 10-strong wine list that – according to the press blurb – is piece of a “multi-sensory” experience. Which sounds pretty classy. Until you realise that the same description applies to listening to Maroon 5 in a damp, or smelly room.
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Source: theguardian.com