I have a few candidates ...
* restaurants (only in the UK) that treat requests for jugs of water, whether or not wine is also ordered, as akin to breaking drought restrictions
* restaurants everywhere that start wine list prices at £15 or more when you know bottles at the bottom end probably cost them no more than a fiver
* the decision of the big foodie pub beside Burnley Manchester Road station not to sell Guinness in any form
* pubs with a range of beers that includes only lager and keg
* licensed premises, especially with parking availability, that fail to stock chilled alcohol-free beers
* supermarkets (such as Morrison's) that refuse to sell wine to perfectly sensible customers if they happen to do their shopping with their school-age children. I imagine else sensible shoppers are affected, too
* hotels that provide no tea and coffee in the rooms
* cafes and hotels that still restrict the choice of tea to Yellow Label or PG Tips
* wine bottle labels that fail, amid the growing popularity of rosé, to answer the most important question: "Is it dry?"
* supermarkets that apply a number coding to indicate how dry the wine is, but use it only haphazardly
* restaurants thinking it perfectly acceptable to bring to the table a white or rosé that has barely had passing acquaintance with a fridge
Feel free to add you own pet drink whinges ...
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