Did you know that retailers use all sorts of subtle store layout tricks to make you buy more stuff? We’ll go into detail about that a little later, but amongst the things they do is put all the pretty, nice smelling stuff at the entrance, to help get rid of shoppers’ “sidewalk momentum”. This is why the produce and floral departments are at the front of most supermarkets. We don’t use tricks like this at Main Party; we don’t have enough room! As a result, we often run into people at the very back of the store, asking why we don’t have any French wine. This is because they walked right past it, first thing! Which is quite impressive, since there are about 200 affordably priced French wines within ten feet of the front door! On the bright side, if you’ve made it to the BACK of the store, you’re that much closer to the premium cellar, where you’ll find some really REMARKABLE French wines. Everything from some familiar and still-affordable items like the 2005 Louis Jadot Pommard Clos De La Commarine (about $55) to the somewhat more rarefied 1997 Grand Vin de Chateau Latour Pauillac or Chateau Haut-Brion Premier Grand Cru Classe De Graves (about $399 & $350 respectively), or even a 6 liter 2008 Domaine du Vieux Telegraphe “La Crau” Châteauneuf-du-Pape (you’ll have to ask). So this Bastille Day, we’ve decided to help you map an attack plan to “storm our fortress” as it were. This Bastille Day, you can have your cake, and eat it too. After dinner with a nice French wine. Maps below.
Let’s face it. Dads tend to smell funny. Whether it’s that “Old Spice” smell after they shave, that gasoline and grass smell after mowing the lawn, or that smoky aroma after barbecuing or having a scotch and a cigar, they just tend to smell like, well, DAD. So this Father’s Day, why not help Dad smell like Dad with a fancy cigar and a nice scotch? You KNOW he never used that nose hair trimmer you gave him, and he already has more shop tools than an Indy 500 pit crew. And buying golf clubs is more like finding the perfect woman, so you know you can’t help him there, because he already has your mom! Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered, with a selection of over 200 single malt scotches, and a healthy selection of fine cigars to ponder. Below are some excellent and reasonably priced cigars, and some of our higher end scotches. Mom may not appreciate you for helping Dad smell funny, but she won’t mind, since you gave her such an awesome Mother’s Day experience, RIGHT? Oh. You didn’t? If you let your mom down this year (shame!) you better cover yourself there too. When you’re checking out with that fine scotch and cigar combo, and that fancy craft beer you’ll inevitably pick up for yourself, we have Moneygram services too. Mom will never complain about some extra cash in the bank! 
It’s great to see so many producers striving to create some quality gluten-free beers. More and more people are discovering all the time that even if they haven’t been diagnosed with Celiac Disease – probably the most common reason to go on a gluten free diet – they just seem to FEEL better when they lower their gluten intake. And some producers are actually pulling it off; of the beers listed below, David & Joe (the manager and owner) actually RAVED about what a great beer the Brunehaut Blonde is, gluten-free or not. But you know what I’d love to see? A comprehensive blind taste test of gluten-free beer against conventional beer. Why? Because I think they’d get a much better rap than they do when the reviewer KNOWS that they’re tasting a gluten-free beer. We often link to reviews on Beer Advocate, because there is a huge community of exceptionally knowledgeable beer connoisseurs there. But we took a quick glance at what they had to say about most gluten-free beers, and decided they were being way too harsh. We first talked about people’s ability to taste 
Whether tax season is a tiresome period when you do a lot of extra work only to figure out how much you won’t get paid for doing it, or the time when you grab an EZ form and figure out your “magic money” refund for the year, we can all probably agree that we deserve a reward for our agony leading up to tax day. That’s why we’ve picked our Spring 