The $5 glass of wine
Recently I've noticed restaurants that could be real wine snobs are offering $5 and $6 glasses of wine. I feel like this is a new phenomenon, brought on by the economy, but I could be wrong.
Juniors has a glass of Red Diamond Merlot, La Vielle Ferme Rhone, and Cielo Pinot Grigio for $5, with almost everything else $6 or $7.
Corks has nothing for $5 but several at $6, including a Lockwood California Sauvignon Blanc and a Rabbit Ridge Allure Paso Robles.
In contrast, the restaurant we ate at last night, where the focus is more on mixed drinks than wine, had less interesting wines by the glass for more money.
(Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
Comments
We've noticed better prices too, but sometimes the glass is barely half full. In contrast, last Friday at Kelsey's in Ellicott City (no HoCo putdowns, please) they nearly filled the glasses...got our money's worth on that one.
Posted by: OldPhil the wino | November 24, 2008 4:35 PM
EL, the restaurants may have caught on to the consumers' sentiment with regards the outrageous wine mark-up as expressed by the bloggers here. At least I hope so.
Posted by: Dan D | November 24, 2008 6:24 PM
Oh, what's so big about $5 wine? This has been done before by Boones Farm, Mad Dog, Ripple, etc....
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | November 24, 2008 10:15 PM
Amen, Dan D! However we were in our favorite little restaurant the other night and they still had lame-o Beringer for 3 times the purchase price! I guess it helps if you have no idea what the wine actually costs!
OldPhil, HoCo has some nice restaurants. And I've always like Ellicott City especially around the holidays. It's just a certain "planned" community that I find frustrating - but nothing about that now!
Posted by: Joyce W. | November 25, 2008 5:15 AM
I guess I dont understand - most of the wines mnetioned are $10 - $13 a bottle, a bargain at $5 a glass??
Enlighten me
I'm not defending restaurant wine mark ups here, just saying it's nice to be offered relatively inexpensive glasses of wine. It reverses a trend I've been seeing of wines by the glass starting at $7.95 on bistro lists. EL
Posted by: Pops | November 25, 2008 7:47 AM
I went to Carrabba's the other night (don't laugh -- my parents are older and set in their ways) and was stunned when I ordered a glass of wine and the bartender shouted (over the raging crowd of 60-somethings who'd been waiting for a table for two hours), "Six or nine?" When I looked clueless, he shouted again (this time, with more exasperation), "Six or nine OUNCES?"
Unfortunately the nine-ounce glasses aren't the same price as the six, but what an odd option!
Posted by: KB | November 25, 2008 7:48 AM
Another study about consumers and wine, from a science blog that I'm following.
"The good news is that there's a new studyshowing, once again, that expensive wine doesn't necessarily taste better, at least for people who aren't wine experts."
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/11/expensive_wine_1.php
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