“Last time I checked, wine goes great with cheese,” says Bill Mignucci Jr. of Di Bruno Bros., the gourmet grocery chain that started out as a cheese shop in Philadelphia’s historic Italian Market. That original cheese shop still stands, and just a couple doors down Mignucci and crew are opening the market’s only bottle shop.
Set at the corner of Ninth and Montrose, Ninth Street Bottle Shop will open in October as a place to buy bottles of craft beer and wine, order off a short food menu, and stock up on holiday gifts; next year, look for it to expand into a small version of Di Bruno’s’ new Rittenhouse restaurant, Alimentari.
