"That Wine is Out of Stock"

[Botafogo]

Ivy, I would be willing to bet that in a city the size of Chi-town with a sizable Italian-American population that if you went and asked the owners / wine buyers at your better Italian restaurants you would flush four or five one-man-show importers out of the bushes. Here in California there must be twenty or thirty of them, mostly servicing the ethnic market (you know, Valentino and Drago where lunch is $100!). And I am CERTAIN there are some Polish Americans there bringing in all sorts of odd Eastern Euro Spirits who have importing licenses and could clear stuff for you. Here we have TWO Sake specialists!

Seek and ye shall find, Roberto