10 wine shops in Bs As

No a bad bit of stuff. Must admit I tend to stay away from wine shops.

Thanks, GlasgowJohn ! The only one we’ve been to is Pain et Vin, where we used to enjoy choosing a bottle of wine from their wall, to have with their delicious sandwiches. I think that they no longer serve lunch. Pity.

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I've been surprised, particularly this trip, how many up market wine shops there are. The whole idea seems incompatible with the economics of the place. Often times they're situated in quiet back street locations as well to make it even more odd to me.

They are the ones authorized to sell booze past 10 PM, so they open late in the afternoon (4-5 PM) and go on until 1-2 AM. They even offer delivery service! It seems odd that you can't buy alcohol in a supermarket or kiosko after 10 PM but you can do so at a restaurant or an alcohol shop.

I didn’t realize that some wine stores were authorized to remain open so late, serafina . In the context of porteños’ love of late, late dinners, it makes sense!

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Try living in the province where you cant buy alcohol before 10.00 in the morning.

Not sure why this law still exists and to be honest why it started in the first place.

Were people taking booze to work?

That chameleon, Scioli introduced that to clamp down on kids getting pissed before going to parties apparently.

As if it stopped them? Anyone with any sense, skirts around these nannie-state restrictions.

Some pubs in Glasgow were/are licensed to open in the morning hours before the normal opening hours. IIRC it was for those who worked in the fish market.

Try this one: there are still places in the US that don’t allow alcohol sales on Sundays. Talk about Nanny State regulations! (It wouldn’t do to have pillars of the community weaving down the aisle in church!)

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Try this one: there are still places in the US that don’t allow alcohol sales on Sundays. Talk about Nanny State regulations! (It wouldn’t do to have pillars of the community weaving down the aisle in church!)

Or church ministers and priests.

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Try this one: there are still places in the US that don’t allow alcohol sales on Sundays

Or alcohol drinking in public! I can't wrap my head around that. A brown bag and you are a law-abiding citizen, though.

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I didn’t realize that some wine stores were authorized to remain open so late, serafina . In the context of porteños’ love of late, late dinners, it makes sense!

I have seen a surge of alcohol-only stores since the pandemics.

There is one every block or so, where I live. They also offer home delivery through delivery apps like Rappi and PedidosYa.

They aren't wine stores in the classic sense (like the one in the corner of plaza Güemes where we went wine tasting together a few years ago). Instead, they sell wine, beer and mostly hardcore booze (vodka, gin, whiskey, fernet). They are open late in the afternoon until past midnight.

Basically, they take the shift after supermarkets stop selling booze. It seems weird that you can't buy alcohol from the Carrefour 24/7 on Scalabrini, but you can walk a block or two and buy it in a spirits/alcohol store.

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Ive always held the view that Argentines arent big drinkers, like say, Brits for example. Yet the local Chino places are rammed full of a decent range of wines beers and spirits. So someone's drinking it all. I can't take all the blame personally!

Always think the same when I see the amount of hard stuff on show. I see people buying beer and wine but never bottles of spirits. I've no idea if spirits have a sell by date or not. If not it's a good way for the owners to save their cash.

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And they can stick their Fernet Branca where the sun don’t shine 😆

I've only had a sip of someone elses and am still wondering what the attraction is.

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They aren't wine stores in the classic sense (like the one in the corner of plaza Güemes where we went wine tasting together a few years ago). store.

BTW, serafina , that wonderful little wine store, Del Buen Vivir, has moved just 2 blocks away, on Güemes. We should go to another wine tasting there!

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Ive always held the view that Argentines arent big drinkers, like say, Brits for example. Yet the local Chino places are rammed full of a decent range of wines beers and spirits. So someone's drinking it all. I can't take all the blame personally!

OK, @Bombonera , OK. I’ll step up and take the blame for their wine sales.

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I'm curious about the way this discussion has developed because it makes me think about many different things.

Ive always held the view that Argentines arent big drinkers, like say, Brits for example. Yet the local Chino places are rammed full of a decent range of wines beers and spirits. So someone's drinking it all. I can't take all the blame personally!

I think I can add that I noticed in Salta last year that no local kiosco sold alcohol at all which must be a local bye law.

You're right, they're not big drinkers. But when a wedding or big party gets under way, they soon get stuck in.

In fact, unlike we Brits, they rarely drink before 8 or 9 pm and if you walk past a cafeteria late evening, practically no one will be having a tipple.

In the price increases of the last few months, I would guess that the price of Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, etc have risen more than the cost of wine. Yet even when soft drinks cost more than wine, they are more prevalent on restaurant tables and probably on dinner tables in homes as well.