We have seen this with our own eyes at a recent wine tasting–completely flabbergasting–a supposedly high-end wine shop in Palatine is now carrying a “chocolate wine”!!! Holy Cow! We have it from the rumor mill that boxed wine from Gallo and liter bottles of Ripple are the next acquisitions.  Way to make a high-end wine [...]

Sam’s Wines & Spirits, locked in a decades-long rivalry with Skokie-based Binny’s Beverage Depot, ended with news that Binny’s is buying Sam’s. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.