A New Zealand café, reportedly sent two patrons to the hospital after mistakenly serving them dishwashing liquid instead of wine. First question: how can you make this mistake? Dishwashing soap does not come in a bottle that looks anything line a wine bottle. Second question: Couldn't the patrons tell by the smell. As popular as  wine tasting is today, they had no idea that they should swirl it around and smell it before drinking the beverage?

It’s a natural reaction to smell things before you put them in your mouth. In fact, it is instinctual. That’s why God gave us noses, so we would smell whether we should put them into our mouths or not. I actually have a bad habit of smelling
everything. I don’t know where it comes from but it certainly annoys my wife. But I digress ... Wine should not smell like lavender or tea tree oil. Then there's the bubbles. And frankly, how much do you have to drink of it to be hospitalized? After the first couple sips any reasonable person would stop.

I've got a quick test to prevent this from happening to any of my readers. If bubbles come out of your mouth like the scene from the Little Rascals or Three Stoges after you sip from your wine glass, don't drink anymore.

Over the years I've smelled some pretty good smelling liquid soap that I was tempted to drink and have drunk some pretty bad wine that I wished I would have washed my hands with, but even I knew the difference.