"Red wine? I do have some. Ask those two customers what price range they want." Heath raised an eyebrow, but still answered Zoroark's question. He had to admit that people often seemed to think Western food had to be paired with red wine, but in Heath's view, there really weren't that many rules to follow. Red wine was simply another alcoholic drink, essentially no different from baijiu or beer. If someone had unusual tastes, they could pair it with barbecue, too.
But compared with red wine, people in China perhaps preferred baijiu and beer. In fact, when many foreigners ate barbecue, they generally chose beer or cocktails they mixed themselves. Perhaps that was because the taste of red wine really wasn't very well suited to barbecue.
Besides, red wine prices varied enormously. Even wines from the same brand could have vastly different prices depending on their vintage and variety. One example was the 1982 Lafite so often mentioned in movies and television shows in his previous life. More expensive red wines could fetch astronomical prices of hundreds of thousands or over a million a bottle, while sometimes a bottle cost only fifteen yuan, making it very affordable.
So whenever a customer wanted red wine, Heath would usually ask about their price range first. After all, the prices really did vary enormously. A more unscrupulous business might even serve an outrageously expensive glass, but Heath wasn't that sort of person. He still intended to ask in advance and see what vintage the two girls wanted. He had bought these wines earlier, but had never drunk any himself. He wasn't particularly fond of the taste of red wine; he could even be said to have quite an aversion to it.
But because Heath provided food and drink, he had still bought some