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Wine Shops
on March 12, 2009
Gridskipper had an informative piece last week on where to be wine in Los Angeles. The article featured a map and short profiles on seven of the city's wine shops.
Among the shops is Du Vin.Du V...
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Wine Shops
on March 14, 2008
Lavinia, in Paris' 1st arrondissement on the Boulevard Madeleine, is a three-story wine emporium that offers wines from France and all over the world. The wine tasting bar welcomes visitors to tas...
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on July 6, 2007
Travelling abroad is always exciting, especially for wine lovers. You can buy wines in other countries that are not sold in your own (and most people say that wines from Italy, for example, taste so m...
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on June 19, 2007
The whole issue about higher levels of alcohol content in wines has been ranging for awhile now. Some say what's the big deal. Others complain that the wines are just not balanced enough and are j...
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on March 7, 2007
Lots of people are starting their wedding plans about now if they aren't already in the works already. My friend's son recently got hitched, and it was a huge deal. The entire wedding party ev...
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on January 21, 2007
The box o' wine trend is growing, now hitting India with its spread into Asia. Eeek!
First the screw cap now a box-o-wine. Will this madness ever end?
At least Black Box Wines (pictured) is try...
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Wine Shops
on January 18, 2007
Who would of thought so many years ago that a little web site selling books no less, would become one of the major Internet powerhouses today - Amazon.com? Of course, book fanatic that I am, I've ...
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on January 17, 2007
Some day you may be doing your wine shopping via a kiosk. Sort of like Wal-mart, you'll be able to pick out your merchandise and self-serve. Kiosks are a growing technological trend; of course, th...
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on January 4, 2007
Not everyone has time to trudge out to a winery these days. Hey, we are busy people. I know for myself, we have a number of wineries down here, but a trip just to get to one from where I live would be...
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on December 5, 2006
I braved the Christmas crowds yesterday and went...gasp! shopping! And, yes, it was just about as bad as you can imagine - hard to find parking, loads of shoppers, and very little help from store empl...
