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How did I not stumble upon this gem of a store sooner?! I must have walked by so many times, but never noticed it. Luckily, I was strolling around Old City with some time to kill the other day, and the playful dog sculpture holding a wine bottle out front caught my eye. Old City’s clothes boutiques are fabulous, but too many in a row can wear me out. The perfect break? A WINE boutique!

Pinot: Everything but the Grape is an adorable little shop on Market Street that sells every wine-related accessory you could ever dream of. There are glasses and cocktail accessories (including classy Riedel stemware), sculptural wine racks, fun napkins and corkscrews, wine-related board games, and display cases and gift baskets of all kinds. There’s plenty to spend a lot of money on (my birthday’s coming up *wink wink*), but there are also more affordable goodies.

I can’t get the animal print wine carrying cases (pictured above) out of my head – the green faux crocodile skin one is my favorite – which are perfect for classily toting some vino to a BYO or your next picnic, and I was super-tempted by the wine-infused chocolate sauce. Imagine it on strawberries… mmmm.

The friendly and extremely knowledgeable owner told me to come back on First Friday, which I duly did, and enjoyed free wine tastings and demonstrations on how to use some awe-inspiring decanting apparatuses. This place is a must-visit for every wine lover, and the perfect place to get a gift for the oenophile in your life!

Pinot Wine Boutique
227 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA19106
(215) 627-WINE
www.pinotboutique.com