Midlife wrote:

> Not sure I understand the fairness of <"If you seem like a serious wine
> drinker, they don't charge for tasting their single vineyard PN's">. What
> makes you "seem like a serious wine drinker"? Seems like it could be
> capricious and arbitrary.

It is at the bartenders discretion. I've been to many wineries that
normally charged for tasting. If it was clear our party were wine
drinkers and not just there for a sunday drive they often waived the
fee. If their policy was to taste 5 wines for $5 plus $2 extra for
premium wines they'd often pour us whatever we wanted. Sometimes a
winery has opened a bottle thats not on their tasting list if we showed
an interest.