You can find people who know about wine at Mr.Whiskers? Last night Big Fella was on a whiskey run, and I asked for a bottle of cheap-ish white for making kir(reference the exploding cassis post on Tupperware Avalanche). “Please go to Bud’s. It’s closer, and they know about wine.” But for some reason, he prefers the smoky smelling, sticky carpet atmosphere.He called from there b/c the clerk insisted that a real kir was made with red wine. (That’s called a communard, because it’s red, see.) Since I wanted white, he needed an idea of what I liked.

OK Lesley, it seems you need to go on vacation. That’s how I learned about grocsry stores selling wines.

The wine in Krogers bill only had a small chance of doing anything due to the interference from the liquor wholesalers and dealers lobbyists - really lobbyinst. Only Tom Hensley matters in this mix. He’s held the reins of control over liquor for decades mostly through his pockets. Every time I hear someone say legislatures can’t be bought I think of Hensley because he’s the golden goose poster boy. He always provides a good feed, liquor that runs like tap water and campaign contributions designed with only one end in sight: keeping the liquor business in the hands of the very few. So far, Hensley, like Castro, is still not dead.

Fluffernutter: Maybe I’m lucky, but there are two guys there I always talk to who’ve been able to steer me right. Particularly when there was a big difference in what the exBF and I liked. They usually helped us find a happy medium. BF2.0 and I were actually able to find some Norwegian somethingorother there, too. So I’m happy with them.

Jim–yeah, I see the wine in stores in Virginia and Florida. But I don’t think that I’d buy something there unless I knew what I wanted. And I don’t think the groceries here will sell much other than the high-volume stuff that I don’t particularly like. If it were up to me, groceries wouldn’t sell any alcohol and corner stores and liquor stores could sell wine, liquor and beer all in the same store. And be open on Sundays.