This missive was posted a couple of days ago under the comments for the “Corkage is a no-no…but not so fast” article we ran last month. It was so interesting that we decided to push it front and center to give you some more Food For Thought.

From Prof. Restaurant to ELV (August 24, 2008):

I do not and will not allow anyone to bring their own bottle(s) into my restaurant. Why? Because of all of the hassles associated with it…if you don’t charge a corkage…sales suffer and the server feels slighted. If you charge a corkage…it always seems like someone “expects” to get that fee waived…plus I have had people on numerous occasions call ahead and ask if they can bring a bottle, the hostess says “sure, as long as it is not a bottle from our list” and they showed up with 3 magnums of the cheapest wine imaginable..it was embarrassing that people around them thought I served that stuff!!

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It seems the vaunted Wine Spectator’s Awards of Excellence are so bogus and bought and paid for that even restaurants that don’t exist are able to get them.

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Last Friday’s Wall Street Journal carried this article by Juliet Chung about how and why restaurants price their wines as they do. As usual (and as deserved), Las Vegas comes in for a fair amount of attention for the (some would say unfair) pricing of its wine lists.

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