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Gabrio Tosti has the perfect pedigree to run a wine shop: For eight years he introduced New Yorkers to indigenous Italian varietals and obscure blends at Il Posto Accanto, the cozy wine-bar annex of his sister Beatrice’s beloved restaurant, Il Bagatto. Now, in a former floral shop two blocks south, he’s stocking precisely those wines his former clientele fell in love with and couldn’t find for sale anywhere else. Here, though, his inventory extends to such far-flung viticultural regions as Lebanon, Slovenia, and South Africa—just the sort of global approach you’d expect on the Lower East Side’s preeminent restaurant row. — Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld

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