Re: Wine
You need to find a wine with a good story. Share the story and sound excited about the wine, like you're letting them in on somthing. I'd get an Amarone - it's a wine from Italy's veneto region and they partially dry the grapes on the hillsides and rooftops before pressing. Tell them the clerk mentioned how it's "smooth yet complex, it tastes like [whisper] velvet panties." The wine has enough going on for someone who appreciates wine to enjoy it but at the same time it's got a lot of fruit and avoids the tannin smash of something like a california cabernet (so people who like wine but don't have a cultivated pallete appreciate it as well).
But really, go with whatever you feel comfortable talking about.
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