In our last survey of wine list costs, we focused on a luxury item, the well-known Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label nonvintage champagne, finding that prices in restaurants around town ranged from $70 to $130. And to add two more prices to that roster (at the low and high ends) the VC/YL costs $77 at Sekisui Pacfic Rim and $121 at Capriccio Grill in The Peabody. The second figure is interesting because Capriccio Grill is in The Peabody with Chez Philippe, and Chez Philippe, a far more opulent restaurant, charges $99 for the same champagne.

Anyway, our concern today is a much cheaper and pretty well ubiquitous white wine on area wine lists, the Ferrari-Carano Fume Blanc. Say “seafood restaurant” and you’ll probably find the Ferrari-Carano Fume Blanc (made from sauvignon blanc grapes) on the list. You can count on this wine to be clean, crisp and fresh, with the snappy acid and slightly spicy and herbal citrus flavors that mean so much to calamari, shrimp and sea bass.

So, here’s our list, drawn from nine local restaurants of diverse aims and geography, stretching from Downtown to Wolfchase. The first price is by-the-glass, the second for a bottle. These figures came from restaurant websites or through telephone calls.

Blue Fin $7.50/$28
Grove Grill $7.75/$30
McEwen’s on Monroe $8.00/$30
Tsunami $8.00/$32
Encore $8.00/$36
J. Alexander’s $9.00/$32
Sekisui Pacific Rim $9.00/$35
River Oaks $9.00/$37
Equestria $10.00/$40

Remember that many factors enter into the determination of prices on a restaurant’s wine list: location, rent, overhead, customer base, style of food and prices on the menu, diners’ expectations (or restaurants’ anticipation of their diners’ expectations) and working the deals with the wholesaler.