Degustation without Representation!

Today is your final tax-free wine shopping day.  The new Massachusetts tax on alcohol goes into effect on August 1st.  Given our location along the Freedom Trail, we are throwing a Degustation without Taxation party tonight.  Who knows, perhaps the night will end with us tossing wine bottles into the harbor! Take advantage of the tasting night discount and to stock up!
This is the night to splurge on the special bottle you have been thinking about or grab a few cases of your every day favorite.  Here’s the lineup…

Matt’s Back!

Picture the rolling hills of southern Tuscany in medieval village of Montepulciano on a beautiful day with all your friends and family and the woman you love…This was the long time dream that we realized on June 25th.  Getting married in Italy was easily the happiest and most memorable moment of my life!  The wedding itself was over two years in the making, filled with lots of intercontinental communication, stress and ultimate joy that made it all worthwhile.  After the wedding the family and friends (all 60 of us) slowly dispersed into the Italian countryside to complete our travels; Adriana and I were off to Greece for 3 weeks!                     Read on for more and tonight’s lineup…

Belated Bastille Day Tasting!

Before any of you ardent Francophiles protest, we are aware that Bastille Day actually came and went on Tuesday, July 14… However, I am a firm believer in the “Birthday Week” concept and decided we could extrapolate the concept and continue the celebration of France’s Fete Nationale for a few more days. We will therefore be transforming from Bottega to Boutique for the evening and featuring an All French line-up!

Read on for the Lineup…

Smooth Sailing

Take it Ella…
We’ve got smooth sailing, sailing
Looks like every drop of rain is
gone, gone, gone
Smooth sailing, sailing
And a blue sky full of rainbows from now on  - Ella Fitzgerald
The Tall Ships are here!  It’s a beautiful day.  The North End is bustling with summer energy.  The renovations are only slightly behind schedule.  We have heard from Matt and the wedding was flawless. (He is now taunting us with gorgeous pictures of sipping wine overlooking the clear blue waters of Mykonos)  Our very cool new guy (Mike) is starting tonight.  All sorts of good things are going on, it’s all smooth sailing…