A carafe of house wine in an Italian restaurant costs about what the bottle of water costs, and the water was never optional.
Everything worth knowing before you order: what a quartino actually is, why the house wine is the most public choice a kitchen makes, the question that gets you the local answer, why the letters on the label are not a quality ranking, and how a glass that costs eight euros on the square costs two a ten minute walk away.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 The wine costs what the water costs
0:51 The house wine is not the cheap option
1:37 Quartino, mezzo, litro
2:23 Food first, then the wine
3:13 The two things nobody orders
4:03 The letters are not a ranking
4:59 Standing costs less than sitting
5:46 Ten minutes from the square
6:36 What to order in the city you are in
7:55 The shop where they pour you one
IMAGE & VIDEO CREDITS
All visuals come from free and open archives. With thanks to:
– Argentieri — CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
– Cantina di Ruvo di Puglia — CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
– Lasagnolo9 at Italian Wikipedia — CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
– Ralf Steinberger from Milan — CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
– Sicilia DOC — CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
– Terragio67 — CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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