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Pinot Boutique Video Transcript

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the Classic Wine Minute brought to you by ClassicWines.com; I am your host Brian Freedman. Today we're here in Old City Philadelphia at Pinot Boutique, the greatest toy store in the world for adults who love wine. Let's check out and see what they have inside.

So, the tag line of Pinot Boutique is everything but the great, and they are not kidding here. They seem to have everything you could possibly want to help your enjoyment of wine along. We start here with gift baskets which are really popular around the holiday time, everything from cocktail shakers for making those great Pinot-tini's, all the way to glasses, to -- what else do they have here; chocolates, cigar paraphernalia, really anything that you need to suck up to your boss or in-laws or really just treat your special someone right.

Now, we back up a little bit here. Now, we've talked about decanters a good bit on the Classic Wines Minute, from the $25 soiree and glass decanter, all the way up to the $359 Riedel U-shaped decanter. It really depends upon the budget that you'd like to spend and what will look best on your table -- also what you can convince other people to buy you.

So we go over here; they have great T-shirts, all kinds of, "Take me in a cab home." Now, back here, this is not ordinary furniture; if you take a close look here, this is actually made out of the oak barrels that they use to age and sometimes ferment wine and really gives a nice Wine Country sort of feel for your cellar, living room, for someone who really is into their wine, the beautiful pieces of furniture.

Finally, we go back here to my favorite part of the store, to Glassware. Now, the business of stemware has really exploded in the last couple of years, and really, there's a style of glass at any price point, any size and shape for whatever wine you could possibly imagine. They are very popular here at Pinot - they are already getting calls, and we'll talk about whey they are calling in a sec. Everything from the $90 hand-blown Sommelier series from Riedel all the way to the Stemless "O" series - colorful, fun, great for picnics or for a nicer table.

Finally, why is the phone ringing off the hook here at Pinot? - Because tonight they are opening up a whole separate cellar space that's great for entertaining, for parties; they're going to start doing some wine education here, and tonight is the opening party. Let's go check it out.

Great party down there - beautiful space. Thanks to Pinot Boutique for hosting us this evening. For all of us at ClassicWines.com, I am Brian Freedman. Cheers.