Tasting Room Fees

[winer]

I hear you, Foodie, and I respect your opinion. You, having had your own winery, have a different perspective than most other people on what is reasonable. Perhaps too, the idea of charging a fee for tasting is more common in the US than it is here in Canada. Here in BC at least, charging the fee is a relatively new phenomenon. I don't recall anyone doing this at all up until a couple of years ago, but now perhaps half the wineries I've visited charge a fee. Some charge the fee only if you are sampling their top end wines. So part of my objection is because, up until recently, I never had to pay the fee at all.

And I STILL believe that if a brand new winery is trying to promote their business, they should not be charging the fee in their first year of operation.