Bringing wine as a gift - need advice

[anomander]

. I have never heard of this (and this was discussed on another thread recently). I would probably have preselected a wine to serve but if we drank it all I’d happily offer to open the gift

I think the etiquette is more like advice to the giver not to be offended if the host doesn’t serve your wine that night. Because they’ve probably preselected the wine like you do. Now that I think about it, I think I actually read that exact letter in a Miss Manners or Dear Abby column a hundred years ago.