Charging for tasting at wineries.

[MRM]

My quibble is not with the choice of charging or not charging. Personally, I resent being charged to taste (not get drunk on, darn it), usually with the charge taken off you assumed purchase, when the reason I am there to taste is to see if I want to drink the wine. The vast majority of the time the answer is no. Either the wine is not what I want, too expensive or both. I have have purchased many cases of wine at tasting rooms when I really liked the wine. The point of the original submittal was to define a system or symbol for wineries that charge to let me know ahead of my arrival, so that I may make an informed wine tour. Magazines aready use a phone symbol for those wineries you have to call ahead to.