It used to be that in order to buy a bottle of wine in New Orleans, you’d head to the nearest grocery store, or make a trek to Martin Wine Cellar. Now there are wine shops and wine bars all over the city, with a whopping addition of 11 new places in just the last five years, and another one opening in the Marigny this summer. Are there really enough throats to guzzle all this wine?

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