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by Thor Iverson |
March 20, 2009
Is
cheap ever chic? If so, this would be the season. Alcohol has long been
fairly recession-proof (who doesn’t need strong drink in hard times?),
but not this go-around. Wineries, stores, restaurants... they’re all
feeling the pinch.
And so, most likely, are you. But if you’re
interested in keeping that pinch at a fun, foreplay-ish level, rather
than affixing industrial-strength C-clamps to your unmentionables, it’s
time to make the acquaintance of the close-out bin: the
Filene’s Basement of wine retail. Yes, sometimes it’s a dumping ground
for the lousiest of the lousy, but not always. And these days, with
consumers’ per-bottle spending plummeting, stores need to unload some
of their pricy-but-stationary inventory to make room for lower-end
stuff. The result? Good wines at giveaway prices.
Or, one can take the concept and turn it into an entire store, as they’ve done at Bin Ends (236 Wood Road, Braintree, 781.817.1212, www.binendswine.com). Which makes us wonder: what do they do with close-out wine? Pay people to take it out of the store?
For more on wine, check out Thor’s blog at www.stuffboston.com.
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