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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
wine accessories catalog and magazine Wine Enthusiast out of ...