My observation is relatively reasonably priced wines that are namely Californian, and not bad wines for the price.

Appears to be your average consumers, probably eating a simple meal, that didn’t warrant a pricey wine to fully enjoy their dining experience – not to certain about the big ole jug however (lol).

Dezel

I had pretty similar impressions, Dezel. Fellinis is also known as a place to get good food at lower prices, so it makes sense that the wines would be on the $10-$20 range or lower.

It is a pretty affluent (and intelligent) area, so I expected one or two rarer wines though.

I was most surprised by how many couples there were with jugs and/or 1.5L bottles. It gets rough for me when Kim and I split 750ml. Either most folks take some wine home with them or I’m not as much of a wino as I thought I was.

I have the same impressions. My other guess is that most true wine folks don’t do BYOB. They like to go to restaurants with big wine lists and maybe get something they don’t drink at home. At at BYOB, meals tend to be lower priced and people like the fact that they can save money bringing their own stash. The truly frugal would lean toward the more commonplace (in terms of finding them in stores) and inexpensive wines.

I wouldn’t agree the true wine folk don’t do BYOB. It’s a great way to control the quality of the wine you will drink, and not pay through the nose for it. I know a lot of wine folk that love BYOBs who don’t change their menu much. That way they know what the food is, so they can pick an appropriate bottle of wine.

Nice point Wlotus,

I can understand Matt’s point also. Wine lists at decent restaurants are nice, but why get overcharged when you can bring your own premium wine. I live in VA and BYOB is not much of an option here. The few places I know charge upwards of $15 - $ 25 or so for a corkage fee. Now Dezel is not cheap, but I think that is sort of high. Anybody with me, or is Dezel just cheap?

I think it’s great there are so many BYOB where Jason lives – wish we could experience the same thing here. But, hey, we do have an automated wine tasting room that Matt wrote about.

Dezel