6.1: Reaching the End Consumer within a Free Market - Hospitality, Bars

Question 1

What is the wine selection usually like at a wine specialist bar?

Answer 1

• ranges
• from small, regularly-changing selection of wine
• to wide range of wines at different price points – including, in some cases, super-premium, hard-to-find wines

Question 2

Why might specialist wine bars not offer big-name wine brands? What is the exception here?

Answer 2

• cannot compete on price with the larger bar chains which have stronger purchasing power
• exception: sparkling and fortified wines

Question 3

What types of specialist wine bars might have sell their own-label wines? Give an example.

Answer 3

• some larger chains of wine bars

- e.g. Davy’s in the UK

Question 4

To be an own-label wine at a specialist wine bar, what type of wine would typically be used?

Answer 4

• usually high-quality wines

- good option for a medium-sized producer