A self-service wine bar called Ceviche has opened in Washington, DC. At this bar, patrons can transfer money to debit cards, similar to the ones you might use to purchase copies at Kinko’s.  You can then take the card to kiosks located around the bar, and use it to buy servings of many different wines.  You can buy amounts ranging from a one-ounce sample similar to what you might receive at a wine tasting, all the way to a full five-ounce glass.

The great thing about these self-service bars is that they allow customers to try rarer, more expensive wines that would normally only be available by the bottle in restaurants.  Many restaurants don’t serve wines by the glass that cost upwards of $200 per bottle; there’s too much risk that once the first glass is ordered and the bottle opened, another glass won’t be ordered for weeks, and the remainder of the bottle will have to be thrown out.  At the self-serve wine bar, even the most expensive wines are within most people’s range in the one-ounce serving size, and so a bottle lasts no more than 4 or 5 days.  Proper equipment is used to keep the wines refrigerated to the proper tempertature.

If you don’t have a self-service wine bar in your town, you can use one of our wine refrigerators to prepare for your own wine tasting at home.

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