Drinks Over Dearborn
650 N. Dearborn, second floor 312-337-9463
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In Fine Spirits gets an honorable mention for providing a stack of empty cardboard caddies so customers can put together mixed six-packs, and for knocking 10 percent off the per-bottle price once they do. But Drinks Over Dearborn takes first prize—for its tasting fridge, which holds a selection of opened but carefully resealed wines, meads, liqueurs, and spirits for sampling, and for the way its staff hooked me up with three bottles of the 2009 Founders Nemesis.
I figured that was that. It’d been nice of the clerk to take my info, but I assumed it was just a formality, a way to soften my obvious disappointment. Then, almost three weeks later, after I’d forgotten about the whole thing, I got the call. There actually had been some Nemesis in the shop all along, but it’d all been reserved by phone. A customer who’d called dibs on some bottles had failed to come in and buy them. And when that happened, the shop didn’t just put them back out on the shelves, where they would’ve been snapped up in minutes. Instead, somebody took the trouble to remember me, and then to flip through all the notes by the register to find my number. Thanks for enabling my beer problem, Drinks Over Dearborn!
