From Des Moines to D.C., these stores across the U.S. are changing the way we shop for wine (via punch_drink)
From an orange wine specialist to a bottle-and-book shop, here are some of the most innovative small wine retailers across the country., at least in the United States, used to be very predictable: four walls lined with bottles sporting color-clashing labels, an awkward table of wines for $15 or less, maybe a rack with a few books.
Today, the wine shop can be a source of education and media. In fact, the wine shop newsletter has become many consumers’ preferred way of reading about wine; some retailers now employ freelancers or have writers on staff, like Domestique in Washington, D.C., and Verve Wine in New York City. In places where it’s legal, the wine shop is also a wine bar ; in others, it is a live music space , a book shop or even a crystal and geode emporium .