NEW YORK - To winemakers, the only thing better than getting you to buy in a shop is getting you to buy in a restaurant.
Many small wineries concentrate their marketing on restaurants.
There are more restaurants for trying good wine these days. In New York, more than 300 new restaurants were added to the Zagat Survey for 2001, as against 89 restaurants that closed. The interest in wine is national, with restaurants in places like Las Vegas and Kansas City boasting cellars to make bicoastal sophisticates envious. In other words, restaurants play a crucial role, perhaps the most crucial role, in determining what we drink. Quickly, what we eat in restaurants is fish.