Grape Escape: A few tips on picking the “sweet spot” where quality and value meet on the restaurant wine list.
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The Grape Escape: Should the wine waiter don a black mask and brandish a pistol when she asks for a 200% wine markup?
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Louisville chefs shut out in 2010 James Beard nominees. Julian Van Winkle III wins as Spirits Pro.
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LEO’s The Grape Escape: Do I look fat in this Pinot Noir? Google “wine and health.” Whoa! I just got 78 million hits!
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It’s a Reuben! It’s a pizza! It’s the Tony Boombozz Reuben pizza, today only at Bardstown Tap House.

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Grape Escape: Tiny bubbles. The world is divided between those who love bubbles in their drink and those who do not.
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Grape Escape, my weekly LEO wine blurb: Winehouse rock. Quick overview of tasting, and a note on Laurel Glen REDS, – http://bit.ly/bNV6Ha

Impellizzeri plans large presence on Arena block.
See HotBytes forum.

LEO’s Grape Escape: The ultimately declassé container, the box-O-wine, has started turning up on some fancy tables. http://bit.ly/leobox

Church fish fry at St. Mark’s Episcopal, just downstream from Porcini on the Frankfort restaurant row. Fridays 5-7 p.m. during Lent.