THE GRAPEVINE

THE oddest place to buy a bottle these days is Pet Wines, a new shop at 415 E. 91st St.The owners run a doggie day care and kennel in the same building and the store has a glass wall that lets you watch dozens of dogs cavorting in an adjacent room tricked out like the patio of a Tusican villa, with plastic grape vines dangling from the ceiling.

Pet’s top weinhund is buyer and importer Willie Gluckstern, who also happens to be the resident genuis/provocateur behind New York’s best wine shop, Nancy’s Wines for Food, across town on Columbus Avenue and 75th Street.

For a good, dog day picnic white try one of Gluckstern’s own German imports, Ohlig Riesling 1999, $10 a liter at Pet, with a nifty screw cap (bottled that way for local restaurants in the Rheingau). It’s no dog.