Everybody has been there, you’re rushing to a dinner party or gathering so you grab a bottle of $20 wine at the last second to not arrive empty-handed. You show up, hand the bottle of wine to the host and it is dropped on the counter. By night’s end, the wine has been mindlessly consumed and not a memory was created. We’ve done it a million times. — This is not our idea. 12 years ago, we read in GQ to bring olive oil instead of wine. GQ wrote the best hosting article we’ve ever read and during this era (when they talked food sometimes), they mentioned this olive oil trick.