SuZie W.
Yelp
I came here on a Friday afternoon around 4 pm because it was finally nice and warm outside! What better way to spend a Friday afternoon but to sit in the outdoor seating area at V-NO Wine Bar and sip on glasses of wine under the beautiful sunlight??
We walked in and a man greeted us with a friendly smile. We asked him if we could sit outside and he told us we could either buy a glass of wine or a bottle and sit outside to enjoy our drinks. We were in a good mood so we decided to buy a bottle and asked if he had any recommendation for a creamy, buttery chardonnay. He recommended the Butternut Chardonnay 2016 ($18) from California.
When I took a sip of the Butternut Chardonnay, I was shocked! It was SUPER acidic and not creamy at all. Coming from California, I love the big, creamy, decadent, smooth taste of Chardonnay... but this was not it. I was a little upset that the man inside recommended us this wine but I don't know, maybe we needed to decant this wine in order to open it up? But then who decants cheap white wines???
When I went inside to pay, he says "oh btw, there is a corkage fee of $7". I expected that there would be a corkage fee but $7???? I wish he had told me that upfront because if there was a corkage fee, I would have just bought the bottle and drank it back at my house!
Overall, this place has a great potential but the recommended wine that we had was not what we were looking for, and I wish they informed us of the corkage fee upfront.