By DCist contributor Amy Monroe Today’s column will be about Champagne and sparkling wine. It will resemble Ben Giliberti’s wine column in yesterday’s Washington Post in that “It’s All About the Bubbles.” It will not resemble that column in any other way. If you’re looking for a laundry list of recommendations offset by non-specific tasting notes containing uselessly vague words such as “fresh” and “lively,” stop reading now and take a look at the Post’s…

After teasing locals for months with a simple sign out front and a bare-bones Web site, de vinos — a wine shop at the strategically located intersection of 18th Street, U Street, and Florida Avenue NW in Adams Morgan — finally popped its cork last week with a very soft opening. How soft? “We really decided to open early because so many people were knocking on the door,” said Ernesto Martinez, a wine distributor from…