Los Angeles - August 25, 2006

The Wine-d Up Bird Chronicle

BottleRock Opens

A friend walks into a bar and says to the bartender, “Break out the Montrachet 1978! She’s buying!” and points at you.

You mutter something that rhymes with “Two-Buck Chuck” (and it ain’t “just my luck”).

Hang out at BottleRock, the new wine shop, tasting room, and bar opening today in Culver City, and learn how never to be steamrolled into buying the most expensive wine on the planet ever again.

You’ll pick up other handy tidbits, too. Like how to navigate your way through scores of wines by the glass and the hundreds of varieties on hand they are happy to let you taste.

If food is where you get fooled (conned into picking up the caviar again?), have them teach you a thing or two about pairing vittles with your vino. They’ll walk you through their menu of cheese, charcuterie, tapas, paninis, and specialty chocolates. 

And soon enough you’ll be the one calling the shots. Maybe even the very pricey ones.

Well, depending on who’s buying.

BottleRock, 3847 Main Street, between Venice and Culver Boulevards, Culver City (310-836-9463).