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Article: It's all about the toys: Wine's soaring popularity produces a surfeit of accessories
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 20, 2006
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NEW YORK -- A corkscrew. An affordable set of glasses. A bottle
stopper.mmmmmmmmmm mThose used to be all a wine drinker needed to
enjoy a bottle. But in recent years, it's been all the rage to spend
money -- sometimes many thousands of dollars -- on accessories to
help you open, drink, store, even decorate your wine.
Forget those kitschy little charms to hook on wine stems that
were hot at parties a few years back. Now fancy bags for dressing up
the whole bottle can run more than $80 and special under-the-
counter refrigerators sell for thousands.
THE IMAGE GAME
"A lot of this wine game is ego," says Adam Strum, who runs the