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William Shakespeare wrote, "Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used." Burgundy Wine looks to make your search for the good wine a good experience. Like at many shops, brief descriptions adorn clearly organized shelves and the sales personnel is eager to make suggestions. But Burgundy Wine takes the process of an educated selection even further with detailed maps of popular and obscure wine regions and regularly held tasting events—not to mention the glass of some recent acquisition that you're handed at the door. As the name implies, the store specializes in burgundies, so if you're taste leans to Spanish or Northern California vintages, you're going to be disappointed. But with an international array of vintages spanning from Oregon to the Rhone Valley, you may be surprised at the wealth this staff has unearthed while personally touring wineries worldwide in a search for "the perfect burgundy. — Mary Pilon