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and i forgot. most chain stores rarely have someone available to guide you to the right wine as opposed to a small independent store where the shop people not only know the wine, have tasted it, but probably know a lot more about the trade.

Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Wine Retailing: Do Supermarkets Offer the Best Choice?

4/30/09 8:25 PM

I work for a wine wholesaler, We're very small and focus on small vineyards and producers from around the world.
you can find us in a handful of chain grocery stores, but the main problem is that they are only a few stores interested in pleasing the customer, most of them are interested in kickbacks from the big distributors.
Even then you can go to some stores and find some very good selections at extremely reasonable prices, usually those stores are stocked very well thanks to their wine managers who try to fight the corporate suits.
also in our area the way the stores stocks their wine correlates not to the taste of the customers but to their wallets.

Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Wine Retailing: Do Supermarkets Offer the Best Choice?

4/30/09 8:23 PM