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Article: Tasting tour: an innovative shop offers a world of wine, shot by shot.(WINE GUIDE)
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- April 1, 2005
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Wine tasting is a funny business. A six-winery Saturday afternoon in the Napa Valley strikes me as torture--your comparison of the eighteenth big Cab of the day with the second isn't worth a fig. Still, it would be nice to be able to sip a few Cabs or Pinots side by side, to find out what you like. Wine bars are good for this, but you generally can't take home your favorite bottle.
So VinoVenue, a new tasting room and shop in San Francisco, caught my attention. There's nothing else like it in the West. Equipped with wood-and-steel dispensers that preserve open bottles of wine with argon (an inert gas that has no effect on the wine), VinoVenue pours more than 100 ...