What's the different between house wine and table wine?!
What's the different between house wine and table wine?
Answers:
Whats the difference? Very little.
Table wine generally means a wine you drink to accompany food. This will be a non-fortified wine (e.g not a
Port or Sherry), not a sparkling wine, in other words a standard still wine like you see everyday on the store shelves. It could be a 2 Buck Chuck or a $200 Mouton Rothschild, they're both table wines.
A house wine is the basic wine a restuarant has and will pour from if you ask for a glass of wine, or if you don't want to order from a wine menu and just want ask for a bottle of the house red/white.
And thus a house wine will be a table wine, but not all table wines are house wines :)
However (and so often there is a however) - Table Wine is also a legal definition in some places. For instance, in the USA Table Wine is a definition used for taxation and means a still wine with between 7% and 14% alcohol by volume. And indeed if a wine falls in that category then they do not need to print the alcohol level on their labels if they use the words Table Wine.