Good thing it comes with the lid, making it the travel mug of wine glasses. new wine shop in Prospect Heights suggests music pairings on their shelf talkers (too bad they also borrow heavily from at least one DrBigJ tasting note without attribution and slap on point scores, instead of pursuing the point-free path ). CNN ]. MORE >>

You’d have to be crazy to open a wine shop in a recession. The 400 sq ft store housed a travel agency (remember those?) The shop stocks exclusively Italian wines and Carlo has laid out the shop by region on the furniture with the northern end of the peninsula near the door and Sicily at the rear. 35 Greenwich Ave. MORE >>

To purchase wines, consumers residing Annapolis, Baltimore or along the Chesapeake must buy from a local store; comparison shopping through retailers on the internet or ordering directly from a winery is illegal. Robert Parker, Maryland’s best-known wine consumer, will not be testifying today since he is traveling, according to Borden. MORE >>

I hate traveling for work because it means being away from the wife and kids, but New Orleans is really fun, I must admit. The Muffuletta is a tricky thing, but Mahoney's Po'Boy Shop does it right. This week I spent another few days there and I ate some tremendously delicious things. Fried Boudin Balls at Boucherie. MORE >>

Even if it joins a refrigerated container for trans-Atlantic travel, Galloni wrote on eBob, saying, “It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that 4 hours in a truck at 100 degree temps means those wines will probably be cooked before they ever have a chance to oxidize, prematurely or not.&#. What can consumers do to avoid it? MORE >>