New high-end wine bar at BWI

Flash! Flying can be a pain. To ease your way through the frenetic process, Cheap Flight News tries to find retreats or enclaves of sanity. Here's a new one. It's at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), and it's called Vino Volo.

You'll find the vintage purveyor's new location out on Concourse A. It's an interesting concept for an airport: a cozy wine lounge, tasting bar, and restaurant all rolled into one.

Vino Volo will sell you wine by the glass, the bottle, and part of what it calls a “tasting flight”. Tasting flights are small pours, just enough, perhaps, to rinse your memory of the security line.

Vino Volo's prices range from $6 to $14 per glass or tasting flight.

The food here is a nice match. There are small plate meals - replete with things such as artisan cheeses, dry-cured meats, and smoked salmon rolls wrapped around crabmeat and crème fraiche.

Beats pretzels and a diet drink back in coach.

© Cheapflights Ltd Jerry Chandler