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VOLUME 123 ISSUE 4
Alumni celebrate wine tradition
Friends promote lifelong tradition by serving KU students
BY ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON
amcnaughton@kansan.com
Jamie Routledge and Steve Wilson weren't even friends in high school. But now they're in business together.
After graduating from Lawrence High in 1989, Routledge and Wilson came to the University as political science majors, not knowing that they would soon become roommates after meeting each other at a party.
The pair graduated from the University in 1996, and after working in the restaurant and wine business for more than 10 years, they currently co-manage City Wine Market, a new wine store that opened at the beginning of this month, located at 4821 W. 6th Street.
"Opening a restaurant is something I had always wanted to do because cooking was always something we did as a family." Wilson said. "After our restaurant closed, I realized wine is what I loved."
Roughly 90 percent of their stock is under $25 and for students, affordability plays an important role.
Through the City Wine Market, both Routledge and Wilson want to promote that drinking wine can be affordable.
"I hate to go into a liquor store that sells wine and I'm automatically shown a $50 bottle when the person hasn't even inquired about my preferences," said Benjamin Fuentes, a senior from Satanta. "I want a bottle that is within a college kid's price range."
Fuentes only buy a couple of wine bottles a month, but Wilson said he noticed a trend of 21- to 30-year-olds drinking more wine than ever in the past.
While working in Kansas City, Wilson learned that the younger
generation takes interest in social activities with an inexpensive price tag.
And wine, by nature, is social. Younger wine drinkers like the sociable characteristics that it offers.
"The college-aged population has experienced great wine with their parents, and they don't see it as a snobby, pretentious beverage like previous generations did," Wilson said.
While Fuentes was still living at home, his mom was given a bottle of wine from Spain. She said she would not open it until one of her three kids got married and it remains closed today. Instead, she went out and bought another bottle of wine and Fuentes said that is where his interest in wine began.
He said now most of his family vacations include going to a winery to enjoy good wine tasting.
Wilson also has many stories and memories about drinking wine on family vacations in Europe when he was younger that sparked his love for wine that he still has today.
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"Wine is supposed to have a story. It is like a little time capsule that captures a specific time, place and surrounding," Wilson said. "If you take all that away, you just have a beverage."
According to Steve Wilson, comanager of City Wine Market, most wine drinkers follow a
- You usually start with wines that are fruity and contain more sugar than others; the sweeter, more fruit-forward wines
- As palette evolves, you may start developing a taste for non-fruit aromas and flavors; for example, earthy notes, tobacco, leather or wood, then may transition to drier wines
similar path.
It is about knowing what you like and want in a wine, because a $100 bottle of wine may be good, but not good for you. There are many factors that play a part in choosing a wine, for example your preferences and whether you are going to eat it with a particular food.
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City Wine Market offers customers an affordable way to try different wines. Most bottles are under S25 and co-managers Steve Wilson and Jamie Routledge, KU graduates, offer each customer a personal wine selecting experience with their extensive knowledge of wines.
Sarah Hockel/KANSAN
Jamie Routledge and Steve Wilson are the co-managers of City Wine Market, a new wine store that opened at the beginning of this month. With both Routledge and Wilson's extensive expertise on wines, City Wine Market offers customers a more guided, personal experience for selecting a bottle of wine than your average liquor store.
TRANSPORTATION
SafeBus offers new transit route
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
When Andrea Tomasino lived at The Reserve last year, she said she worried about getting home
safely from the bars
SafeBus is introducing a new route, route 54, to its transit system this year and will provide service to The Reserve and The Exchange.
"That would've been helpful," she said. "Then I wouldn't have had to worry about drinking and driving."
Tomasino, a senior from Morrison,
Ill., said she wished the service
had been offered when she lived
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ANDREA TOMASINO Morrison, Ill., senior
Transportation coordinator
coordinator Derek Meier said the new route was developed for the night this year because it has the second highest number of SafeRide passengers during the day. He said the staff har
learned from the Red and Yellow routes that transit-savvy users, paired with high SafeRide demand.
"Then I wouldn't have had to worry about drinking and driving."
Macle Jester and Kolt Kontour, freshmen from Augusta, share a laugh while riding the SafeBus green line Saturday night. The green line, which is accessible via numerous stops, runs from Daisy Hill to 33rd Street.
Although the KU Parking & Transit staff does not know what
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can equal an effective and efficient SafeBus.
WATER
City hopes to fix water problem
Smell and taste should improve soon
BY GARTH SEARS gsears@kansan.com
There's something funky in Lawrence, and it's not the parties or music — it's the water.
The city's water has a funny taste and smell because of extra blue-green algae in Clinton Lake and the Kansas River, where Lawrence gets its water.
The algae have by-products, geosmin and MIB, that create the earthy or musty taste. Geosmin literally means "earth smell."
"The water tastes moldy," Leanne Tracy, a junior from St. Louis, said. "It tastes off. I noticed it first at my home, and then at a
restaurant, so I knew it was happening all over."
Tracy ever bought a water filter to try to fix the taste.
several fixes such as adding things to the water and changing how it's filtered.
Your tap water is safe to drink because it has
The taste and smell should be
"I noticed it first at my home, and then at a restaurant, so I knew it was happening all over."
LEANNE TRACY St. Louis junior
getting better soon — possibly within a few days. But as Klamm pointed out, there are no guarantees. It can be a difficult problem to solve.
gone through one of the city's two treatment facilities, one at Clinton Lake and one near the Kansas River, Jeanette Klamm, project manager for Lawrence's utilities department, said.
It's possible for the entire city to get its
She also said they are trying
water from either plant and normally many people get a blend of both. So when there are complaints about the water, it can be hard to pinpoint which source the
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