<table border="0" align="right" width="310"><tr><td><img src="http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/brixbar.jpg" border="1" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td>Brix Wine Bar, on Lagrange Road, is an attractive, worthy addition to the suburbs. Photos by Robin Garr.</td></tr></table>LEO's Eat 'n' Blog with Louisville HotBytes
(Brix Wine Bar, Diamante)
As soon as I saw the name of Brix Wine Bar, I knew I had to try it.
Brix - pronounced "bricks," not the Frenchified "bree" - is a serious techno-wine word, a vineyard term for the level of sugar in wine grapes, a measure of ripeness at harvest. The higher the brix, the riper the grapes, the more sugar, the greater potential alcohol.
Only a real wine geek could come up with an oenophiliac name like that. It's not like calling your wine bar "Merlot" or something.
As it turns out, Brix Wine Bar is an attractive, worthy addition to the suburbs, a surprisingly cozy shopping-center space with a sizable list of well over 200 wines, a smaller but not-insignificant number of them available by the taste (2 ounces) or the glass (6 ounces). There's also an appetizing and rather affordable menu - heavy on appetizers and a variety of sandwiches, a bit lighter on the main courses - provided by Ladyfingers Catering, a local firm that also provides the num-nums for revelers at the annual Derbytime Barnstable-Brown gala.
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