The Till

The daffodils were early, but spring break came late this year for Redding. After watching the neighboring towns come and go, finally it was our turn, and we took the opportunity to visit friends and family in Omaha. This was a good excuse to dial back the hours, spend some time riding the big slides, and drink a few great bottles of wine. (Since it was already 85 degrees there I’ve got a summer preview - treat yourself to Pascal Cotat’s Chavignol rose - 100% pinot noir and 1000% the best pink juice you’ll taste.) One of our favorite restaurants in town also doubles as a wine shop. They don’t have a bottle list, but you can walk up to any of the shelves and pick out what you want. With only a corkage fee on top of retail pricing, it obviously pays to get a good bottle. I explained the wino logic of how much money we’re saving by drinking premier cru Burgundy to my wife. At a restaurant y= (1+m)x, where m is the percentage markup of bottle costing x. With corkage, y = x + c where c is a flat corkage. For all bottle costs x where c < mx, you win. Hold c and m at standard values, and the x value of breakeven is pretty low. And the spread between those curves increases linearly with x. But I digress - more importantly my daughter had a different question. Newly obsessed with tooth fairy income,…