Ultimate Grocery, wine-people.com
Normally, I don't go nuts about Grocery Stores. Certainly, I have never before been moved to honor one in a photograph. But this one's different. I would be doing it a grave injustice to say that it's a gourmet deli...or a chi-chi coffee shop...or the smartest source for your picnic provisions...or an excellent place to buy hard-to-find wines at pretty good prices. The original Oakville Grocery is all this, plus a piece of Napa Valley history and more.

     I only wish they'd open a branch on the East Coast. (Complete with the wines, of course.)

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