Downtown streets open to wine tasting

Wine and beer makers have a new avenue to entice passersby to sip their wares.

The Coeur d’Alene City Council opened downtown streets to wine and beer tasting after considering the measure at a committee meeting this month and having it approved by the full council.

And that’s just fine with Jim and Julie Sheppard, who plan to open their sipping booth at Wednesday’s downtown farmers market.

“I’m all over it,” said Jim Sheppard, who owns Sheppard Fruit Wines in Harrison with his wife, Julie/ Ralph Bartholdt , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.