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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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…

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  • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you think about it, there are hundreds of thousands of combinations of wine labels and vintages from thousands of producers. Some people who collect the wine and store it at home will want to enjoy the wine they have with a professionally prepared meal, and will bring that wine to a restaurant, and enjoy the entire service aspect of it (pouring into nice glasses, etc.).

    It doesn’t make much sense for ordinary bottles of wine. So the people who do this usually bring special, hard to find, significantly aged, or sentimental bottles. And because the restaurant still provides the service of opening and pouring the wine into nice glasses that they’ll clean, there’s usually a per bottle charge added to the bill.

    So it’s not super common, just also not super rare, either.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      but why would you bring that kind of wine to an edinburgh curry house (which is where i first saw it mentioned)

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    not that i can even drink wine

    Because of your drinking problem?

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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  • Keilik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some municipalities do not grant liquor licenses to restaurants so BYOB is the loophole.

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  • Hal@piefed.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where I live bring your own places to would be cheap end restaurants not ones that pair the right wine with food.

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  • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Many cigar lounges will do the same if you want to smoke cigars you got elsewhere at their lounge.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      that’s even weirder, because as far as i understand it, the things that pair well with cigars are in general not things you need to have at specific places.

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• okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To the baby: “Excellent vintage. You’ll want to make sure those nips aerate before enjoying so they are fully erect.”

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  • skunk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    PSA: Don’t let mother’s milk turn vintage

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• Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• crenquis@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been to some restaurants where they don’t charge a corkage fee as long as they don’t sell the wine you bring.

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