corkage

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A fee a restaurant charges for serving wine you bring

noun
/ˈkɔrkɪdʒ/

: cargo por descorche

I must warn you, our corkage fee is outrageous.
wine corkage
corkage fee
corkage charge

Examples

Many restaurants offer a corkage fee for customers who wish to bring their own wine.
I should really charge you corkage, you know.

Finding Your Feet (2017)
If you want to bring your own wine, the corkage fee is $15.
Diners who bring their own bottles are charged a $10 corkage fee.

Surface Forms

corkage singular

corkages plural

Morphology

corkage = cork (opaque) = cork + age

The word is historically built from 'cork' + '-age', but the specific sense 'fee for serving customer-brought wine' is specialized and not fully predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Corkage comes from cork, the 'stopper' in a wine bottle, plus the ending -age. So corkage is the 'charge' a restaurant asks to open and serve a bottle you bring yourself.