Prinos, the greengrocer, has a wine and cheese event this morning. They're featuring the cheeses, of course, and selling the wine as well for that matter. So there are large plates of brie and other soft cheese, some topped with bits of apricot and fig, and plates of grapes and melon and oranges, as well as dozens of disposable plastic wine glasses of red and white French wines. Impossible to imagine a similar Canadian store doing this for a number of reasons, some of which may be legal. (Raye?) Some provincial liquor stores do offer samples of wine, but usually thimblefuls, whereas these must be three or four ounces, and I suppose that one could go back for a second, although we don't. Actually, I refer to Prinos as a greengrocer, and it calls itself a fruiteria (φρουτιέρα), but in fact it sells a variety of cheeses, a small selection of wines and baked products and quite good sausages, as well as having an excellent butcher. It's just that it specialises in fresh fruit and veg, both local and imported.
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