What happened to half litres of reasonably priced reasonably good wines? Do I have to buy a 9 dollar plus glass with a seven dollar starter?Check it out-restaurants start their-rather small-glasses of vino tinto at 8.50 and go way up to 12. or more. That’s about a 500 %mark up-and sometimes the red is still cold! Best yet is a glass of Campo Viejo-bottle costs $22.00 approx -for a mere 12 bucks. So you can’t make money with your food, try something better. Take out and drink better wine.
This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2008.
I’m no wine aficionado, more of a beer guy really but why don’t you try places that allow you to bring your own wine. I know there is a re corking fee or whatever they call it. Might be an option for ya Teresa.
I know there is a lot of overhead in running a restaurant but the gouging that goes on with wine is obscene. The LC will sell you a good bottle of wine for $15. That bottle contains 5 glasses of wine. At the standard $9 per, that is $45 for the bottle or 3 times cost. If you go for the house wine that is even more ridiculous since they buy it in 5 liter bags and sell it for $7 or $8 a glass. If only someone in the business would realize they would sell a lot more wine if they priced it reasonably.
I paid $45 for a bottle of Wolf Blass that costs $20 at the NSLC. And that was actually good! I have seen the prices increased by 300% sometimes…absolutely ridiculous.