Wine Is Getting Too Expensive. Who's Buying It? — Jeffrey Roel

Podcast: Tasting Notes Toronto by Insider Wine · Alex Abbott Boyd

Opublikowano: 2026-09-01

Is wine becoming too expensive for the people who love it? Jeffrey Roel is the General Manager and Head Sommelier at Henry's Restaurant in Toronto, an Advanced Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers, and winner of the CAPS Cup. We talk about the $150 tab that used to cover five courses, the Bordeaux house asking over $1,000 for its second wine, and how a sommelier finds value as everything climbs — including saying yes to wines Jeffrey once had to reject for being "too cheap." Plus: wine's gatekeeping problem, and what hospitality feels like once the choreography dr...