wine bars

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If you really are serious about this you might want to subscribe to some trade journals in the field to get ideas. Wine Business Online has the following link: http://winebusiness.com/ They publish Wine Business Monthly and Wine Business Insider. A phrase search under "wine bars" brought up several citations but you need to be a subscriber to see the full article. One was about wine bars proliferating in Portland, Oregon and said that historically wine bars have a hard time staying in business in Portland with half a dozen opening and closing over the last few years. That article was from 2002 and I think the drift was that some of the wine bars are doing better financially now than in the past but without access to the full article I'm not sure. It also had citations for articles on collective tasting rooms where several wineries share expenses to market their wines and about serving snacks with glasses of wine.