Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.special From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: THE WINE LIST Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 07:02:32 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: THE WINE LIST Publication Date: Sunday November 8, 1992 BYLINE: Dan Berger love the glassware, the ambience and the wine service at Checkers, and I've dined there often. But I've noticed few tables have wine on them. The reason, I suspect, is the prices--twice retail for currently available wines, at a time when just about every retail shop is discounting deeply. Examples: 1988 Piper-Sonoma Brut sparkling wine, available at shops for around $15, is $29 here; 1990 Silverado Chardonnay, $15 retail, is $32 here; 1990 Kunde Reserve Chardonnay, found in one discount store at $19.99, is $49 here. Perhaps if Checkers were still the only game downtown, this policy might work. But now with excellent, well-priced wine lists just blocks away at McCormick and Schmick's and the Water Grill, one suspects that Checkers' wine sales will come mostly from well-heeled suckers. This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM