Posts Tagged ‘restaurant’

Wine List Warning: Bogel 2007 Petite Syrah

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

This is a new category that I hope helps a few wine-loving diners. The Wine List Warning points out overpriced wines found on wine lists…most restaurants featured will be located in Toronto. (If you know of some Wine List Warning, comment here or feel free to send us a post.)

The first overpriced wine, that is on alot of menus in Toronto, is: Bogel 2007
Petite Syrah

Today, I had a fantastic dinner at the Harbord Room (crazy high corkage of $35) and noticed Bogel listed at $44 per bottle. This is crazy marketed up! In California Bogel 2006 Petite Syrah sells for $8.49! That is right $8.49.

This Bogel Petite Syrah seems to be a big money maker for restaurants; note, I love restaurants and want many to be around and making money. But this markup seems CRAZY to me.
If you see Bogel on the menu, then skip it and try a glass of an Ontario or British Columbia Wine.

Toronto’s Six Steps not really a BYOW restaurant

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Tonight, I was looking for a new BYOW to try. Something really nice with hopefully good service. Six Steps has been mentioned as a possible BYOW restaurant.

Me: What is your corkage?

Six Steps: We don’t have a corkage.

Me: Oh, I thought I could bring my wine story.

Six Steps: If you want to bring your wine, we charge you the price of our cheapest bottle of wine to open it.

Me: What range would that be?

Six Steps: $35-$40

Needless to say, I won’t be going here tonight. The obvisouly don’t want people bringing wine even if it is a ‘96 bordeaux.