Wine with dinner…or grocery shopping and wine tasting?
May 13th, 2008
Minnesota has been trying to pass a law that would all grocery stores to sell wine and beer. (Currently Minnesota has an asinine law that grocery stores can only sell 3.2% beer.) Wine With Dinner has not quite made it through legislation, but on a recent trip to Chicago, IL, I discovered something at Whole Foods that completely blew my mind.
Wine tasting in the grocery store! Check this out (sorry for the blurry pic):
You put money in (somewhere – I didn’t look for it), and you can select which wine you’d like to try. Whole Foods provides real wine glasses (ain’t no plastic waste in Whole Foods), and they display the price for a 1 oz. pour. I think there are about 12-15 wines at this kiosk.
Pretty cool. I was tempted to try some, but after all the karaoke singing the night before, I didn’t think 1pm on a Sunday was a good idea.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
hmmm..that kiosk could make shopping at Whole Foods a
whole new ezperience……..could be amusing…:) add
a new dimension to meeting people at the grocery aisle..
May 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Yet another reason why Whole Foods is a great store. Hope the legislation passes, nothing goes better with a meal than a glass of wine.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:42 am
i completely agree! i was so jealous when i walked through the store.
in fact, we walked right on by and got to the check out when i said ‘hey, we should go back and check that out.’
i know it’s a bad idea to go grocery shopping when you’re hungry, but a little tipsy? that might be worse!