corkage
- n a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises
- One town used its "corkage" taxes from vodka sales to build a sports stadium, apparently thinking the lure of sports would take people's minds off liquor.
- If you buy one of the wines, you can drink it in the hotel's restaurant, which will waive its usual corkage fee.
- Corks can crumble and allow air into a bottle, causing what is called corkage, a slight rotting of the wine.