The crew at this new wine shop got things put together in time for the Auburn & Opelika Chambers to host a ribbon cutting on 9/11/08.  Here are a few pictures from the successful event.

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We found Gus as well as a few helpers working hard to prepare the new store for opening on 9/11/08. Thanks to Gus & Family for letting us take some of their time to look around. The shop will have a Beer and Wine cooler in the back of the store with a custom built in Wine wall on the right side of the store. He’ll also have the store full of wine and beer displays and will have some new items not available anywhere else in Auburn.

UPDATE From Gus: The Fine Wine and Beer by Gus will not be open for business until September 5th. The holiday puts us later. Gus

Fine Wine Beer by Gus Opening Soon

So great to hear from so many “gustomers”! Gus’ new shop will be located in the Flint’s Crossing Shopping Center, next door to the UPS Store. Look for our opening in the first week of September. We are shooting for Wednesday Sept. 3. Gus’s email is gus@finewineandbeer.com. We look forward to everyone being able to fullfill their wine-wishes very soon! Folks can always send us pre-orders!

 

We can’t wait to become the best wine and beer shop in Lee County!
Thank you to all of Gus’ wonderful, patient supporters.

We’ve been looking for as much info as we can find about the new wine shop and we found something today. It appears that the shop is being placed in online directories. We found an entry on several online business directories for “Fine Wine & Beer By Gus” with a few new details. Here is the entry as we found it:

Fine Wine & Beer By Gus
1550 Opelika Rd
Auburn, AL 36830
(334) 826-0970

We’ve heard that Gus formerly of Auburn Kroger is opening a new wine store in Auburn. It seems the name will be ‘Fine Wine & Beer’ and will have a Grand Opening on August 29th. It will be in the Panera strip on Opelika Rd. across from the mall. We have a soft confirmation and we’ll confirm asap.

This post dabbles in rumor land but it’s to big for us to wait any longer. It appears that Gus, Andrew Clark, formally of Kroger on Dean, has decided to open a new wine shop. He has been known as much more than a grocery store wine dept. employee for some time now and has hosted tastings around the state and for local groups such as the Auburn Chamber of Commerce.

We have a few pics of where we think the new shop is going in the Panera & CiCi’s shopping center across from the mall. It is rumored to be going into a portion of the old Food World location and the construction in that area seems to confirm that. We tried to contact Gus via email but the address appears to be an old one or we have an incorrect one. Please let us know it you have any more info or if you know how to get in touch with Gus. We have worked on a few things together in the past and look forward to some new opportunities in the future. We’ve heard thatthe shop, which we haven’t heard a name for yet, is slated to open late August. Again,we can not confirm any of this information but it seems promising.