i first heard of a corkage fee this summer and it weirded me the heck out. what do you mean people bring their own bottle to restaurants? isn’t the point of those kinds of places that they select a wine that goes well with the food?
not that i can even drink wine but still…
Some municipalities do not grant liquor licenses to restaurants so BYOB is the loophole.
not that i can even drink wine
Because of your drinking problem?
no because the sulphides combine with my medication to give me turbo-hangovers after a quarter of a glass.
but the airplane explanation is funnier so yeah, it’s that
Then you might bring your own sulphide free wine and pay the corkage fee.
i feel like that’s more of an allergy thing than a preference thing though.
Sometimes people will bring a bottle from a particular year (year they got married on a big anniversary date) or will have some other particular sentimental reasoning for this, so it’s not very often.
sure but if it doesn’t happen very often there’s no real reason to charge for it?
maybe it’s differing alcohol cultures, idk. according to some bullshit map i saw years ago i live in the “vodka belt”, so maybe i’m too drunk off of ambient fumes to get it.
Yes but the up-charge on wine is absolutely obscene and can frequently be more than what they earn on the food. Additionally, the places that can get away with this are the kind of places where arguing about what would be a relatively small charge on the bill would be so incredibly awkward that you wouldn’t dare.
So it’s extortion basically, but fancy.
so the reason i haven’t seen it is probably the alcohol tax that adds 50€/liter of pure ethanol to every beverage. it’s just not useful here.
wait.
as in, every beverage has 50£ worth of pure ethanol added to it? if so… no wonder Slavs are always depicted as drunk off their asses LOL
or is it a 50£ per litre of pure ethanol on each pallet of alcoholic beverages (eg… 2l of pure ethanol adds 100£ of tax to the pallet price)?
If there was no charge then everyone would bring their own, and they would have to start charging more for the food to make up for the loss.
not if they just say no.
Where I live bring your own places to would be cheap end restaurants not ones that pair the right wine with food.
Even high end restaurants stock mostly swill for profit margins. To find a restaurant with good wine is to find a unicorn. In the US, anyway
To the baby: “Excellent vintage. You’ll want to make sure those nips aerate before enjoying so they are fully erect.”
PSA: Don’t let mother’s milk turn vintage
Shaken, not stirred
