Why you should never believe what you read in the newspapers

Well well well. Here we go again. I'm about to tell you about a story, printed in a local newspaper, that's wrong. And it's not just a bit wrong, it's way out in space. Probably circling the Hubble telescope. That's how far out in space it is.
Anyway. I'm sure everyone saw the headline in Metro yesterday. Some politicians had gone out to Koefoed in Copenhagen for a five course dinner to discuss some fishery issues (not fishy issues, thank god I re-read and correct my typos). The journalist and his editor seem to have been crapping themselves, because the text is ridiculously scandalous. Why? Because the politicians had a wine menu with their five course dinner. I'm more and more leaning into believing that being a journalist for a free paper is like being the smartest cast member of the Hills. That's very nice, but you've still got no brains and no sense of fashion. Can someone please prove me wrong?
So what was the issue here? Well, this dimwit of a writer had totalled the amount of wine drunk to a staggering sixty units (units as in 2,5 dl glasses, you know the type you get at your local pizzeria where the wine bottles have no labels) for eight people. Sixty glasses of wine!! 7,5 per person!! That's nearly two bottles! They must have been sooooo drunk! O-M-G!! (See what I mean by the smartest cast member of the Hills?)
So here's the lowdown. Koefoed is a very nice restaurant and would never serve any one person nearly two bottles of wine. They, just like us, serve small "tasting glasses" of wine with their multiple-course menus. If we served a full 2,5 dl glass with every course, people WOULD get drunk. And I have NEVER, EVER, heard of anyone who got hammered from drinking a wine menu. The glasses used in fine dining establishments serve 1/4 or 1/2 unit (unit as in 2,5 dl, remember?) measurements. And the order of wine served is unfailingly thus: 1/4 unit Champagne or aperitif wine, 1/4 unit wine with the first course, 1/4 unit wine with the second course, 1/2 unit with the main course (here, possibly a 1/2 unit fill-up), 1/4 unit with fourth course, 1/4 unit with fifth course. So all in all - 2,5 units (about half a bottle) of wine. And when any sommelier is asked for "half glasses" we reduce the amount to about a tablespoonful per glass(making the wine menu total about 1-1,5 glasses) - that's what the Koefoes waiter meant.

So, either this writer could audition for Adam DiVello's next big hit, or cutting down on boozing while writing is a good idea. Or wait - how about actually finding out the facts before spewing nonsense?
This is Sommelier Linnéa, signing out.