Reviewed by laojianbing on Tue, 12/08/2015 - 20:01
We were there with a few friends over the weekend for some casual drinks. The beer is decent, no questions but for the few people that do not feel like it, it would help to have a few options that do not cost an arm and a leg. I'm sure rent is high in that corner of sanlitun but 60 bucks for a tiny pour of red wine that had turned is highway robbery.
Yes, i'm companing about non-beer options in a beer place but i feel it is part of the service. If you're hell bent on customers only drinking beer, then just keep it that way. Don't make a joke out of it.
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Hi,
Just to clear things up, the current price of our wine is RMB 55 a glass. This does place it at the upper range of the drink list at our Taproom (our beers vary from 35-60 RMB, with an RMB 10 discount at happy hour), but we aren't trying to rip-off wine drinkers. We take pride in the quality of our beers, and so for our short wine list we wanted to choose wines that we like. Our red, the biodynamic Paxton AAA Grenache Shiraz, is a very nice wine, and that quality comes at a certain price when we buy it from the importer. If you look at other places around town that serve that same wine (for example at Zarah), you'll see that our price and our pour size are not out of line. We measure each pour carefully to ensure it's the proper amount consistently, but of course any wine pour will look small when put next to a full pint glass of beer.
We're sorry if your group found there was a problem with the taste of their wine and suspected it had turned. If a customer were to bring that to the attention of our staff, they would simply have it replaced with a pour from a different, new bottle.
We're happy to hear that as far as our beer went, there were no problems, and hope you'll return to our Taproom soon!
I do agree that Jing -A is overpriced (60 rmb for 300something ml of ipa is crazy) thats 10usd for a small bottle of beer! The food was kinda bad the couple times I ate there. The IPA was great, if not for the huge price tag I would hit it up often.
The reason I am writing is more about the wine though...Alot of wine in china is bad, for many reasons, biggest one being storage. I have a friend who is a vinyard and winery owner that was asked to come and judge a wine comp in china..during his trip, he toured alot of the areas involving the wine trade..He told me about hundereds of thousands (if not millions) of bottles sitting n 100 degree storage..ruined! Not to mention lack of staff knowledge, throwing around and banging bottles all over the place making them "sick" and bad to drink. Also unless the proper care is took, once a bottle is open its only really good for 1-2 days. I have tried many times here and every once in a while yu can get a good bottle but more times than not, the wine has a sour-turned taste.
mike