What's Trending Now
More Trending Words
Definition of corkage
: a charge (as by a restaurant) for opening a bottle of wine bought elsewhere
Indulge Your Inner Word Nerd
Recent Examples of corkage from the Web
-
Until then, the restaurant is allowing customers to bring their own alcohol without corkage fees.
-
For air travelers, some of the best news heading into summer is JetBlue’s BYOB policy, which allows passengers to bring onboard and consume their own booze on all flights, providing it’s served by the airline’s cabin attendants (no corkage fee!).
-
DRINKS: The restaurant is BYOB with no corkage fee.
-
That said, George Trois has a first-bottle-free-corkage policy (check restrictions) that will warm any wine-collector's heart.
-
No one, including visiting tourists, pays a corkage fee.
-
Even with restaurant corkage charges of $20 or $25 per bottle, bringing in your own wine makes sense, especially for fine wine.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'corkage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of corkage
1838
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up corkage? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
Writing? Check your grammar now!