I seem to be on a wine kick, at least blog-wise. In last Saturday’s blog, I wrote of the Inverness Resort’s wine flights. Now I want to tell all you wine-lovers about wine bars that are opening up in various U.S. airports. The Wall Street Journal called them “a suave chain of wine bars with first rate food,” which is a pretty savvy endorsement. The Vino Volo chain of wine bars currently operates in 5 major domestic airports, and expects to be in at least 12 by the end of the year. You get comfy leather chairs to sit in, a chance to taste at least 24 wines by the glass or in tasting flights, appropriate light fare that goes well with the wine (to eat in, or it can be packaged for an airplane picnic), and an outlet where all the wines you can sample are also sold by the bottle. Right now, you can find a Vino Volo wine bar at Sacramento (SMF), Concourse A; Seattle-Tacoma (SEA), Central Terminal Marketplace; Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) in Southwest’s Concourse A; the original Vino Volo at Washington Dulles (IAD), United’s Concourse C; and the latest, at JFK in American’s Terminal 8, Concourse B. Two more are scheduled to open this spring: at Detroit International (DTW) and Philadelpia International (PHL)’s food court in the B/C connector. A nice touch is that in addition to carrying a better quality of wine than you find in most airport bars, and giving you a chance to compare, say, Rhone wines or pinot noirs against each other, each of the wine bars also carries local wines–Long Island wines at JFK, Virginia wines at Dulles, Washington State wines at Sea-Tac, etc. Cheers! –Mary Hunt, editor, eFlyer