Cost of Imported Wines ? ? ?
Related to your topic:
1. I remember reading a post w/i the past 6 - 9 months concerning a proposed vineyard - in the mountains near Santiago, as I remember; Jarabacoa? Costanza? You might search the DR1 archives.
2. Are imported wines substantially more expensive that they were 1 year ago? Or is it my imagination. With the Peso down from 40 - 45 to 30+-, it seems like the prices of wines went up, then never came down??
Possiblities:
a. is wine taxed more heavily by the national government than beer or rum, becuase there is no native wine industry;
b. very few Dominicans drink wine; based on my observations, I estimate that 85 - 95% of wine drinkers in the DR are foreigners, at least outside Santo Domingo.
Food for thought? With a glass of chilled Chardonay, please!