{"id":12277,"date":"2009-06-01T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/oenology.html"},"modified":"2009-06-01T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T08:30:31","slug":"oenology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/06\/01\/oenology.html","title":{"rendered":"Oenology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I got into a near-argument with a business owner about the cost of wine versus beer and other liquors. Like many people I know, I rarely buy wine at a bar or restaurant because the cost markups are irrational. In some cases one could go to a store and buy 2 bottles of a wine for the cost of a single glass of that same wine at a wine bar. Beer, I was then informed, is usually marked up at comparable if not greater percentage when compared to store-bought products. To me the analogy does not connect, at least where draught beer is in play. Draught beer is generally a superior product to canned or bottled beer, and it is generally not available in homes (in-home kegs exist but they are not common). If one pays $10 for 4 cans of Guinness one would get, for the same price, 2 pints of said beer at a pub. That 100% markup (and I&#8217;m not including tips) is still far less than markups of 500% or higher that I tend to see in bottled wines. Bottled wine is, however, the exact same product you could get at a store, while draught beer is (arguably) a better product than what is available in most shops. That&#8217;s my point of view. I may be full of it but if I am then so are a lot of other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-oenology","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}