Article: It's all about the toys: Wine's soaring popularity produces a surfeit of accessories

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

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