wine bars

[hotwine]

Welcome to the board.

A wine bar sounds like a fun idea but here are some issues to consider:

1. You'll need a state license to sell alcoholic beverages, and proably also city and/or county approvals.

2. Since you would be selling such beverages to the public, you would need liability insurance - lots of it - to protect you in the event one of your customers were to have an accident after visiting your business.

3. Selling wines by the glass, which is what such businesses do, means you would need to open several bottles at once, and be prepared to absorb the loss if they weren't all finished in one evening. (Keeping an opened bottle overnight to finish the next day could result in oxidation of the wine and lose customers.)

4. Location would be key to obtaining steady walk-in traffic, and that would likely mean high rental costs.

5. You would need a means to handle rowdy customers; a bouncer, perhaps (see #2 above).

The movie "Sideways" notwithstanding, I'd look for another way to lose money.