“I used to say that the shop was 400 square feet,&# Christy Frank told me when I visited her in her downtown wine shop, Frankly Wines , last week. The diminutive shop at 66 West Broadway has a selection that skews toward wines from the Southern Hemisphere and wines under $20. Map of the best wine shops in New York City. MORE >>

Not all states may allow returns and some may limit the length of time that a shop could return a wine to the distributor.) Tags: business of wine wine shops wine writing What happens when a reviewer tastes a good bottle, but some consumers buy what appears to be a completely different product? Think it couldn’t happen? MORE >>

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Of course three of the weeks were a little bit less than enjoyable, but it did end on a great day of wine shopping at a few shops that I have never been to before. One, a small village shop with one of the best selections of Italian, German, Australian and California wines that I have seen locally. Opened two so far. MORE >>

Les Caves Augé, the excellent Paris wine shop , has fun, free wine tastings that spill on to the sidewalk. The shop is crammed with so many fine and fun wines that they mainly have to do these free tastings outside of the winter months, so the broad pavements of Boulevard Hausmann are at their most hospitable. By Timothy Eustis. MORE >>