Eh, there are wines that go better with certain dishes than others. If you order a wine on your own and it doesn&#x27;t go with the food, it&#x27;s your own damn fault, but on a tasting menu with wine pairings it&#x27;s 100% understood by the customers that the sommelier has spent some time identifying and selecting good matches for each course.<p>I can&#x27;t tell from the grandparent comment whether he&#x27;s grousing about a bad choice he made personally or some botched tasting menu pairings - but if he got the tasting menu with the wine pairings and the wine didn&#x27;t match, then yeah, he absolutely got ripped off. Expecting two things the restaurant recommends together to actually go well together isn&#x27;t an &#x27;outlandish expectation&#x27; at all.