That place seemed cool, although a little sterile looking, it’s just a giant vending machine.

QOTD; Brix

QOTD: My favorite wine bar in San Diego, CA is Wine Steals in the Hillcrest neighborhood.

Couldn’t agree with you more. Fruit bombs are too one dimensional and
definetely not food friendly,

QOTD: Aperitivo in Schenectady, NY

Couldn’t agree with you more. Fruit bombs are too one dimensional and
definetely not food friendly,

QOTD: Aperitivo in Schenectady, NY

Interesting wine bar.

QOTD: Park Blue

Not much selection in Vancouver, Canada. Uva seems to be the sweet spot of the moment.

Just seeing how LITTLE the amount of wine came out for the dollar tells me not to waste my time going there. Thanks Gary for showing this vid. I would have felt raped had I not seen it now. I understand the location costs, but give a guy a break…. you mean to tell me this place can’t pour in a “little” more???? PASS

Very cool place!!!

QOTD:My favorite wine bar is in Vancouver Washington of all place.The Cinetopia theater, fine dining restaurant and 100 bottle automated wine bar.This theater has the best HD projectors in the Portland, Vancouver area,fine dining service inside a special living room theater,equipped with overstuffed leather chairs and ottomans.But the coolest thing is the wine bar,it is similar to The Clo bar in that you use a card to dispense your wine from an automated enclosed system.The difference is that they sell their wine by the glass,ounce or bottle(they hand serve these).This place is great,you can jump around tasting until you find what you want without buying a whole glass and then plant your ass in a big overstuffed chair,eat a killer dinner and watch a great movie on a super high def screen what could be better than that!

Baron Bouge in the 12th arr in Paris, France
They are a winebar where you can actually buy a glass of wine for 2 bucks.
They don’t serve the high end stuff, but its handmade wine and decent.
they also have great oysters and slalami

Gary I have been wanting to go to CLO for a long while…. Cant wait to get there myself… since i own a wine bar i would have to say mine… winedown cafe!!! west reading PA….

Broadway in Eugene, Oregon

I gotta say that place is a little gimmicky and is for tourists. I think theese kinds of high concept places wear thin quickly and the technology starts to look tatty quickly.
I did see some good wines though

QOTD: I think CLO is my new favorite wine bar! I’ll have to check it out when I’m in NYC this weekend 🙂

Slick setup.
But why did you go back to the vending machine for label info when you had the interactive bar-table at your fingertips?

How coooool! You even nerded it up high-tech style. The next time I’m in NY I’ll be sure to check out the Star Wars video winebar.

Sorry to hear the wine did not live up to the Vayniac’s recommendation. I didn’t see any Dominus?

Anyway, sitting out on the deck with a group of homies drinking the Villa Santa from a recent Portugal episode.

QOTD: Proof in DC. http://www.proofdc.com/

Have a Happy 4th to all!

Cool episode but I agree it seems like they don’t give you enough for what your paying.

QOTD: Morrell Wine Bar in Rockefeller Plaza

QOTD: the beach

Gary it would of been so cool if you looked the wine info up on the bar and not the bottle!

Why does Clo offer such huge pours? Can you request just a taste?

The place reminds me of a pachinko parlor. Without servers, what is the point? Even Mickey D’s has servers. And clearly, they don’t pass the savings in labor costs to the consumer!

Superb review of the Binder, GV.

QOTD: Soif, here in Santa Cruz, California.

Why does Clo offer such huge pours? Can you request just a taste?

The place reminds me of a pachinko parlor. Without servers, what is the point? Even Mickey D’s has servers. And clearly, they don’t pass the savings in labor costs to the consumer!

Superb review of the Binder, GV.

QOTD: Soif, here in Santa Cruz, California.

G, you should’ve compared your notes to those at/in that cool table.

QOTD: In Fine Spirits in Chi. It’s a local joint w/a friendly staff and nice little selection that doesn’t break the bank. Plus, they have a store directly next to them of the same name that you can usually pick up a botlle of what you like from the bar. Also, LeCreperie in Chi. Maybe more of a restaurant, but their French is as solid as most wine bars and the food is pretty darn good. The ambience there would have you thinking you are in an old bistro in Paris.

love the on the road shows!

love the on the road shows!

VERY VERY cool, Gary! Thanks for sharing that place with us. I definitely want to check that place out next time I’m down in the city!

VERY VERY cool, Gary! Thanks for sharing that place with us. I definitely want to check that place out next time I’m down in the city!