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| - checked this place out on my recent trip to Vegas as im a huge wine lover, and i have to say it fell a little short of expectations.
the space is awesome... a few levels below the main casino floor and has a great, relaxing vibe to it. darkly lit, comfortable, the pictures on Yelp! really show the Hostile Grape well. where the excitment wanes are in the little things.
my main gripe was with the tasting dispensers - they have no rhyme or reason to how they're organized. it would have been SO much easier to navigate if say, all the CA Cabs were in one area, and then all Rieslings (even if it was domestic and foreign) were in another. As it was, you could easily have a bottle of a $30 central CA Syrah next to a $200 Bordeaux next to a $40 NZ Sauv Blanc. because of this, i felt less inclined to sample many wines as i would have liked because it made tasting from say, lighter bodied to fuller bodied, incredibly difficult without having to do multiple laps around the floor.
besides this (relatively significant to me) issue, i kinda liked it. we ended up doing a not so cheap (i know its Vegas, but you're 5 miles from Mandalay) flight of 3 different kinds of bubbly for $25, with obviously measured 2oz pours, of which the most expensive bottle in the flight probably retails for $35-40 normally.
the Grape has a lot of good things going for it, but if the prices (on the flights and by the glass) were toned down just a tad, and it was better organized i'd be a much bigger fan. as it is, the next time i visit M i'll definitely stop by to see whats changed, but i doubt i'll taste or drink anything there, which is a shame.
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