The neighborhood wine shop is an invaluable resource during the holiday season, a place to drop in for a host gift on the way to a party or get something special for your own events, and it’s all the better if they have their own wine bar to sip a glass while you shop. This combo wine shop/wine bar concept has been growing in more neighborhoods lately .

A new one feels like a real find in an unlikely location, where it’s building its own offbeat neighborhood vibe.

Back Line Wine & Spirits (3928 Euphrosine St., 504-623-9463) is a shop and wine bar built in a Gert Town warehouse that has new life as an art studio complex. Its bar is the warehouse’s old receiving office, its patio is the loading docks.

Back Line is part of the ArtEgg Studios , a vintage egg and dairy warehouse tha

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