You’d have to be crazy to open a wine shop in a recession. Since he had quit his job, he tried to find another but had difficulty: he couldn’t even get a job as a server at some BYOB restaurants in New Jersey where he had worked growing up. See it on the map of NYC wine shops. But don’t tell Carlo Orrico. MORE >>

Buying crudite and rosé at the same time might help New York solve its budgetary woes. To recap the budgetary logic, he proposed to more than double the excise tax on wine and increase the points of sale beyond the 2,400 wine and liquor stores in the state and allow the 19,000 grocery stores to sell wine. MORE >>

What if you could not buy a book at a bookstore in New York if it had come from a New Jersey warehouse? Or fill your car up with gas in New York if the truck that brought it to the gas station came from New Jersey? This would require all wines to come from warehouses in New York. Thank You. MORE >>

mention this because a few hours prior to reading them, I took my list of winners from the New York Wine and Food Classic and went shopping for wines on that list. shop at at about 12 different stores for wine. Another effort should be made to help advise the local shops about the competitions and awards. MORE >>

Now the New York Times jumps into the pool with the announcement yesterday that they will be starting the New York Times Wine Club. The press release states “The New York Times Wine Club is operated independently of The Times’s critics or other members of the news department.&# MORE >>