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Hip and trendy wine shops that “feel the love” are sprouting all over New York City. Or so the NYT’s Eric Asimov writes in his column yesterday. Actually he worded it like this:

It is no exaggeration to say that New York has entered a golden age for wine shopping. Never before have there been so many different kinds of wine to choose from, and in so many different parts of the city. It’s a blossoming that trails similar explosions in the restaurant and food retail businesses in the late 1980′s and 1990′s. [NYT]

But it strikes me as more of a nationwide (global?) phenomenon rather than just a local story. I have a list of wine shops that catches some of the names. What are some new hip and trendy wines shops in your part of the world?