The waning weeks of October marks the return of Opus One to retail shelves. This wine was originally conceived as a collaboration between Robert Mondavi and Baron Philipe Rothschild. It happened that there was a wine distributors meeting here in Hawaii in 1972 which both men attended. After they met, the Baron invited Mondavi to [...]
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Adam Smith is considered by many to be the “father of modern economics”. In 1776, he published The Wealth of Nations which argued that in a free market, the individual acting in his own self interest was actually promoting the good of his community through a principle he called, “the invisible hand”. If everyone focused [...]
In honor of our fifth anniversary in business, we thought it might be interesting to share some triva about The Wine Stop. To start, we came up with our name only three weeks before we opened. Originally, we were going to name the store Ambrosia Merchants Inc. (Ambrosia, because it was the food of the [...]
The marathon is a race which commemorates the run of Pheidippides, an Athenian soldier. After the Athenians had unexpectedly defeated the Persian invaders, he is said to have run from the battlefield at Marathon all the way back to Athens to shout, “Be happy! We have won!” and thereupon died. It is said that the [...]
It is often said that prohibition ended on December 5, 1933. However, this is not entirely true as recently mentioned in our April newsletter issue #51. In December of 2007, Christie’s auction house was finally able to hold its first liquor auction since the prohibition era thanks to recent changes in New York State liquor [...]
Almost 200 years ago on June 7, 1816, the British Parliament agreed to buy the Parthenon marble sculptures from Lord Elgin. Eventually they were placed in the British Museum and became known as the “Elgin Marbles.” Fast forward about 200 years, the Greeks want them back, and the British don’t want to give them back. [...]
The earliest Pubs in Europe were called taverns, from the Roman word taberna, or wine shop. In those days, the taverns functioned as inns which provided food, lodging and wine, and probably local ale, for weary travelers. Literacy was not widespread in the ancient world, so it was not uncommon for taverns to have grapevines [...]
In July of 1986, Nancy Thomas checked out the help wanted ads in the Honolulu Advertiser. She saw an ad for an administrative assistant being run by Chambers & Chambers and applied for the job. Shortly thereafter, she was hired. In her first week on the job, one of the ladies in the office had [...]
April 7, 2008 is the 75th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition’s first phase. Finally, beer and a low alcohol version of wine became legal. Upon signing the first phase into law, President Franklin Roosevelt famously said, “I think this would be a good time for a beer.” The final repeal of prohibition occurred on [...]
Every year on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, bars around the United States serve pint after pint of green beer. The Irish emerald green you’ll find everywhere in the city of New York: green bagels, green Entemans, and the Empire State Building glowing a bonnie Irish green on the day that everyone is Irish. But [...]
