{"id":228,"date":"2010-03-06T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T11:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/03\/lets-say-i-went-to-a-wine-store-today.html"},"modified":"2010-03-06T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T11:34:44","slug":"lets-say-i-went-to-a-wine-store-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/03\/lets-say-i-went-to-a-wine-store-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Let’s say I went to a wine store today"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the sake of argument, let’s say that this morning I broke the ridiculous Pennsylvania law intended to force the state’s residents to buy wine at our state stores, and went out of state to buy a case of wine. And let’s say I went across the river into New Jersey and visited Moore Bros. <\/a>in Pennsauken. To make this experiment interesting, let’s further suppose that I e-mailed them yesterday, gave them a budget, told them the kinds of wines I like (and the kinds of wines I don’t), and asked them to put together a mixed case of eight reds and four whites.
\nIf I had done that, I would have found a wine store that specializes in small, artisanal, family-owned European producers, with whom they have personal connections (and if I’d gone today, say, I would have had the chance to have met Aljoscha Goldschmidt of a tiny Tuscan winery<\/a>, and to have tasted some of his wines). I would have thought, perhaps, “How crunchy-con, small-is-beautiful is this?!” And I would have gotten .\"rodwine.jpg\"<\/span>extensive wine notes printed out for each of the bottles the helpful clerk chose for me, telling me about the wine itself, and the history and terroir<\/i> of its source, so I could understand what I was drinking and why it tastes the way it does.
\nWouldn’t that have been fantastic? What a shame that law-abiding Philadelphians can’t make the short trip across the bridge to Moore Bros<\/a>. I suspect they would really be pleased by the experience. If only we had free-market capitalism re: wine shopping in Pennsylvania…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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