Bar Diane, the sweet and colorful wine bar from Clyde Common alum Sami Gaston, was open for five months before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down Portland dining rooms. After a lengthy buildout, Gaston didn’t feel like she could afford to completely close the business — so, like many Portland wine bars, Bar Diane became a bottle shop: Gaston and business partner Kevin Gouy lined the bar and tables with bottles of Hungarian skin contact wines and Columbia River Gorge zinfandel — plus plenty of bubbles, foreign and domestic.
“Luckily, we were very small, so we were able to nimbly start selling our cellar, we were merchandising a little shop,”
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