This Week at the Shop: Aging Riesling
Riesling is one of the noble grapes and to many is the best white wine grape. No other white grape can produce the astonishing variety of delicate and persistent aromas…
This Week at the Shop: Fun & Crazy New Items
Every week we have dozens of great new wines, beers, and ciders come across our Tasting Bar and we only select the most interesting, tasty, and those that offer the…
New Ownership!
I am very pleased to announced that the Crystal City Wine Shop has new ownership! When I started as the Shop’s General Manager two years ago, I fell in love…
This Week at the Shop: Bastille Day!
On July 14, 1789, a mob of roughly 1000 broke into the Bastille, a medieval fortress and symbol of tyrannical Bourbon authority in central Paris, and after hours of fighting,…
This Week at the Shop: Happy Independence Day!
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a…