This is the best place on the whole West Coast to buy wine,” says wine connoisseur Betty Fedje of Bandon, Oregon.
If you think she’s talking about a trendy wine shop, you’d be wrong. When Fedje wants a good bottle of wine, she stops by Tiffany’s Drug in her hometown. She can choose among 1000 labels, including many hard-to-find wines and a range of prices from very affordable to out of sight. Wineries from all over the Northwest, California, and throughout the world are represented.
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You’ll find wines usually seen only in the most exclusive wine shops, such as Opus One, a partnership of Napa Valley’s Robert Mondavi and France’s Baron Philippe de Rothschild that produces red wine ranging from $149.99 to $165.99 a bottle. There’s a cabernet by Diamond Creek for $214.99 and some Louis Roederor “Cristal” Brut Champagne for $239.99. If that’s too spendy, try the Dom Perignon at $120.
Tiffany’s Drug manager Dennis Thomason took years building his impressive wine selection. “In 1989 when I opened this store,” he says, “I started with 9 feet of jug wine. When I asked the wine distributor about adding fine wines, he said, ‘They’ll never go in this town.’ ”
When another distributor started covering the area, Thomason trusted his instincts and replaced the jug wines with fine wines. He expanded 3 feet at a time—as he could afford it—until he got to the end of the section. Then he started filling a second section gradually 3 feet at a time until it was full. Now he has two 30-foot long, 5-shelves high displays. |
 So if you’re in the market for some unusual or hard-to-find wines, head to Tiffany’s Drug (541-347-4438) in Bandon. It’s in the Bandon Shopping Center off Hwy 101 at the northern end of town.
By Judy Fleagle
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