Most restaurants charge, but here are a few exceptions.
 

The corkage fee is a convenience fee charged by restaurants for wines from outside their cellars. They are missing out on a big source of revenue when you bring your own wine.
 

• – Bring unusual wines.
• – Bring wines aged in your cellar.
• – Bring wines that are available only at the winery.
• – Bring wines that are at least as much as their least expensive bottle.
• – It is customary to offer the waiter and the sommelier a taste.
• - Wines selected by the restaurant have been selected to compliment the dishes.
  Keep this in mind.

 
Corkage Fees in Napa

 
Who Doesn’t Charge, and Who has Exceptions.

No Corkage Fee:

• Compadres Bar & Grill, Yountville
• Pacific Blues Cafe, Yountville
• Rutherford Grill, Rutherford
• Silverado Brewing Company, St. Helena
• Zinsvalley, Napa (unless 12 or more in party)

 

One Night of the Week Free Corkage:

• Fume Bistro, Free Tuesdays, otherwise $10
• Piccolino’s, Free Mondays, otherwise $8
• Ubuntu, Free Mondays
• Bayleaf, Free Mondays and Wednesdays
• Market (St. Helena), Free Tuesdays
• CC Blue (St. Helena), Free Wednesdays
• Cuvee, Free Wednesdays
• Julia’s Kitchen, Free Wednesdays

 

Will Waive Corkage if you Buy a Bottle from their Wine List:

• Bistro Don Giovanni, Napa, otherwise $20
• Bistro Jeanty, Yountville, otherwise $15
• Brix Restaurant, Yountville, otherwise $15, up to 2 bottles
• Celedon, Napa, (including half-bottles), otherwise $15
• Hurley’s, Yountville, otherwise $15
• Mustard’s Grill, Yountville, otherwise $15
• Tuscany, Napa, otherwise $15
• Uva, Napa, otherwise $10
• Zuzu, Napa, otherwise $10

 

Corkage Charged:

• Angele, Napa, $20
• Cafe Cicero, Napa, $10
• La Strada, American Canyon, $10
• Pearl, Napa, $12, half of the fee is donated to the Humane Society
• Redd, Yountville, $25 for fist two, $50 thereafter
• Villa Romano, Napa, $13

Other Drink specials:

• Cuvee 1/2 price coctails weekdays 4-7pm
• Copia 1/2 price wines by the glass weekdays 4-7pm