Wine-to-go idea isn’t taking hold <br> <i>Many restaurants don’t offer patrons the option</i>

David Ortiz

February 12, 2007 8:10 pm

PUT A CORK IN IT! Some restaurants are promoting the merlot-to-go idea, while others fear liability if patrons uncork their bottles on the road. /

Few restaurant patrons take unfinished bottles of wine home with them following a meal, despite a law passed in the summer that allows them to, local restaurateurs say. Rhode Island's "merlot-to-go" law, which allows restaurant patrons to take an unfinished bottle of wine home with them following a meal, was passed last summer in an…