Patch Picks: Wine and Liquor Stores

Check back each week for our five Patch Picks on great local businesses, destinations, services, organizations, ways to spend a day off and more.

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This week's Patch Picks: Places to Purchase Spirits 

1.)  Aries Wines and Spirits - 128 W. Post Road

This old-fashioned wine, liquor and spirit shop has been serving White Plains locals for 30 years. Couple Andrea and Tony Russo, the store owners, boast a temperature controlled wine room, and selections from all over the world—with thousands of new products coming in consistently.

Prices range from $5 to $5,000, so there is sure to be something for everyone. The husband-wife team recommends new products, such as the Voyant Chai Liquear, Tequila Rose Cream, or Dallmayr German Coffee Liquear.

Want to learn more? Take one of the duo’s wine courses at Westchester Community College or impress your loved ones with their private wine dinners and your co-workers with their hosted corporate events. Aries has free parking and free local delivery, is open 9 am- 9 pm Monday-Thursday, 9 am- 10 pm Friday-Saturday, and noon to 6 pm Sundays.

2.)  Carhart Wine and Liquor Store - 343 Mamaroneck Ave

Carhart Wine and Liquor Store is a neighborhood shop that has been serving locals for 26 years, with a location that’s been a liquor shop since the Prohibition repeal in 1933.

South American wines are particularly hot right now, but there is a large variety of hand picked selections from wine regions across the globe. The owner and employees will help you choose which product is best for you on your budget.

Carhart is open Monday-Saturday 9 am-8:30 pm, and Sunday noon-5 pm.

3.)  Vino 100 - 170 E. Post Road

Voted “Best in Westchester”, Vino 100 is a local boutique wine store with helpful, friendly employees and a large variety of small production, high value wines from all over. 

Although Vino has some premium brands, the majority of its selection is under $25. Their number one bestseller is the Finca Flichman Malbec for $10, with the Tutela Prosecco hailing from Italy for $12 following soon after. They also offer a few terrific Portuguese brands for $10 each and are particularly excited about the new, fruity $10 Spanish Por Favor that makes for a great sangria additive. Not a wine person? Check out their specialty liqueurs, consisting of mainly scotches and vodka.

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My fascination with bread started about 4 years ago, after my food journey through Europe and seeing the wide variety of artisan breads that are available.  In France, they have the wonderful sourdough breads; in Paris, specifically, they make these great Parisian baguettes. Italy has fabulous ciabattas and semolina breads.

Due to the prices we were paying for artisan bread, we decided to start an in-house bread program at the Wine Center.  I began studying and researching everything I could find on baking bread.  The first book I bought was Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice – I studied this book backwards and forwards, because learning baker’s percentages is the hardest part.  Once I got that down, I found different techniques of starting sourdough starter using grapes.

When grapes are in full harvest mode, they have natural yeast on their skin. I mashed grapes and mixed them with flour and water, and continued to feed the mixture additional flour and water every day for 2 weeks, which gave me a starter.  Over the past few years I have been baking weekly and using the starter.  It’s at the point where I can take 1 pint of starter, add flour and water and bake 200 loaves of bread.  Not only does this wild sourdough starter add flavor, but it also increases the shelf life and allows these breads to stay fresh for several days longer.  Here’s the trick to keeping that bread fresh: after slicing it, if you don’t finish the loaf, just place the cut-side down on a wooden cutting board and do not wrap in plastic.

Even with all the bread knowledge I’ve gained, and the varieties of bread I can make now, I always seem to go back to a recipe that was given to my mother by her Jewish neighbor for Challah bread.  Known as the “celebration bread,” this egg and butter enriched dough is found throughout many countries with many different styles.  In Greece, they add hard boiled eggs to their Challah for Easter; in Italy, dyed colored eggs are added to Challah for Easter.

Challah brings back so many memories for me.  I remember eating this bread as a child when my mom used to bake fresh loaves and give them out to her friends as gifts.  Below is the recipe for Challah that was given to my mother.  It is simple to make and can be made into a variety of shapes: hamburger buns (for buns, portion out 3 to 4 oz. pieces of dough), pullman loaves for sandwiches or just keep with the traditional Jewish style of braided bread.  Challah is freshly yeasted bread, so it will stale faster, but it can be toasted or made into the best French toast ever.  (For French toast, I always use the recipe in the Joy of Cooking cookbook).


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