At The Great Western Marketplace sits the Marketplace Wine Bar. It's beautifully designed and looked like it just grew out of the floor of this building. Inside the building there are small businesses with various things for sale, one of those businesses being the wine bar.
With prices comparable to Total Wine, you can buy wine and take it home, or you can enjoy by the glassful. They also have tons of craft beers, and the bartender Tony is a total joy. Sometimes 90% of a bar is how well you get along with your bartender, and I'd come back just to chat with him.
Along with a partnership with Sierra Nevada Scoops for an Adult Root Beer Float (with Not Your Father's Root Beer), they also offer a "Wine Slushy" that changes flavors from week to week. The week I was there the flavor was peach. Tony uses a different white wine and combines it with peach puree in his slushy machine. The mix was perfectly balanced and delicious, despite me feeling a little silly slurping through a straw in a wine glass. Maybe I spent too much time in Vegas, but it seems like it should be in some kind of sippee cup.
I bought some wine that I will be reviewing later, but for now you should head down to the wine bar this Friday, as they have live music from 5-7.
The Marketplace Wine Bar inside Great Western Marketplace
Friday 11:00 AM-7:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM
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