a charge made at a restaurant for serving wine, etc, bought off the premises
corkage in American English
(ˈkɔrkɪdʒ)
noun
a charge made, as at a restaurant, for opening and serving each bottle of wine or liquor bought elsewhere and brought in by a patron, or, occas., for every bottle opened and served, regardless of source
Word origin
cork + -age
Examples of 'corkage' in a sentence
corkage
The caterer had made a mistake on the cost of the corkage: it was to be five percent more expensive than they'd originally said.