World Wine Tour indeed a world of wine

I stopped by 801 Chop House early yesterday to see if the World Wine Tour was really serving more than 300 wines. It was. The tour opened to the public at 5:30 p.m. but from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. was an industry-only event that resembled a street market, not a hoity-toity wine tasting. In each and every corner of the massive steakhouse was the cacophony of deals being done and great wine being poured.

I talked with wine producers from Argentina to New Zealand — as well as to a former Goldman Sachs employee who had been recently laid off and was now working for his wine-producer brother.