AND a new wine shop

now this I did NOT know about. Thanks!

Is it wine from Catalonia? They can't sell food and wine together in NY, I have to investigate.

Subject: opening soon

I passed by on Wendsday on the way to Gate and the store was all ready to open, though not yet, some people (owners?) were drinking wines inside.
The store looked beautiful.

I've been here three and a half years out of California, and that law still blows my mind.

best two wine stores - Slope Cellars and Shawn's

Little Red Menace, I would guess that the bizarre proscription against selling meat and wine in the same store was lobbied for by wine/liquor shops, to protect them against possible competition from supermarkets.

Trader Joes and Red, White, Bubbly AND Big Nose AND Slope Cellars sell a lot of industrial garbage, more akin to Coca-cola than real wine. If you walk into a wine store and you Yellow Tail or Carlos Rossi or a 'cheap wine' section with wines that don't claim a vinyard site or an actual human involvement (estate bottled, Azienda Agricola, bottled at Domaine...etc..) it should discredit them right away. Do you know how they make cheap wine? Oak chips, saw mill waste, planting vines in a high density, reverse osmosis, adding acids, adding sugars, industrial yeasts...why would you pay for crap, even if it is a few dollars cheaper.....enough said SIP is good

Awesome, we were in desperate need of a wine store here in Park Slope.

Again, as i said, i do not buy any of those wines. But, if a wine store sells them, I believe it is just because some people actually like them and ask for them. I have heard people say they really like yellowtail, which personally i cannot understand. once again, i think a wine store selling those wines doesn't mean they are a terrible wine store.

What's wrong with screw tops on wine??

I think stocking "accessible" wines is a smart business decision. A lot of stores that are able to carry special/limited production wines would have a hard time staying in business if they didn't have carry the more mass-market wines. I am a beer guy, but don't mind a glass of wine once in awhile. That being said, it doesn't matter to me if the wine I drink has a wine-snob stamp of approval. The guys at Full Body are cool when I go in there for a bottle to take to a party and they don't try to get me to buy some limited edition, exclusive, expensive bottle of wine when I tell them what I like.

Bottom line is, economically, you generally need some volume to subsidize the stuff that has a more specialized appeal. You gotta pay the rent somehow!

Nothing wrong with screwcaps, great for certain wines. Corks are a 500 year old technology. The jury is still out on long term ageing. Check out what the Germans are doing with their glass closers, very elegant and sexy. Yes I was drinking and typing. Had a grilled duck breast with a $10 Chinon that is bio-dynamic and made by a person. Bought it at Chambers Street Wines. Great shop in the city.

google vino-lok

Yellow Tail will work for me in a pinch.....like, when my only option is the liquor store on my block. CH doesn't have a nice wine shop, so if I just want to have a glass with dinner and don't already have something at home, then that's what I do.

This is just to let some people gain an "understanding" as to the various motives and reasons for purchasing wine. Also, coming from Sonoma County, I do appreciate a fine wine when I can get it....and it's hard to get even a decent California wine in this state without over paying for it.

Wow, not one good wine comes from California-snob much?