Total Wine update: new location, tastings, and classes.
For those in ATL who care.. Saturday Heather and I talked to the wine manager at the Perimeter Total Wine store.

In April, the Perimeter Total Wine store will no longer carry liquor. There's apparently a (stupid) Georgia law that prohibits liquor stores with multiple locations from carrying liquor in more than two of them. So, when the Alpharetta store opens in April, the Perimeter location will become wine only. This is also why there are only two Green's and only two Tower Liquors.

The good news is that they'll be able to start offering classes and wine tastings then. It seems there's another (stupid) Georgia law that prohibits stores who carry liquor from offering tastings- even if the tastings are only wine and beer. Once they get rid of the liquor, they can start tastings.

I also learned that the Kennesaw and Perimeter stores have the exact same inventory. Previously, I thought that the Perimeter store had a smaller inventory, but it only seems that way because of their bizarre store layout (which was necessary because they knew they were eventually going to wine-only). The Alpharetta store will be in the old CompUSA location across from North Point Mall. They expect it will have the same inventory as the Kennesaw store.