Choosing wine in restaurants

Choosing a wine in restaurants.
Do you make make your own winechoice on the winelist; looking for a good deal?
Or do you enjoy being led by the restaurantmanager or sommelier??

Every restaurant has it's own way of dealing with wines some focus on the demand of the consumer, others look for wines to match the restaurant philosophy or make it match with the chefs kitchen. Some want to specialize themselves in a certain style.

Depending on following points I would make a decision:

-Is the restaurant based in a wineregion

-Type of kitchen

-What's on the winelist

-What's the budget

-Who is the sommelier

-Do we know the restaurant or staff