Texas Monthly Celebrates Latest Awards and Nominations
This week the magazine earned five National Magazine Award nods and won nine City and Regional Magazine Awards.
May 7, 2021
The conditions were not ideal. This past year we worked from weird chairs with jerry-rigged lumbar support. We communicated (and miscommunicated) over Slack. Our cats planted themselves before our cameras during important Zoom meetings. For one particularly hopeless week in February, many of us lost power and water during a historic cold snap. At no point did it feel like we were having a “great year.” So this week, as award nominations and wins for
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For more than 40 years, Beaver Liquors in Avon has been selling spirits, wine and beer to the imbibers in the valley. Upon first glance, it may seem like a fairly typical liquor store. But walk down the stairs to the wine cellar yes, there’s a wine cellar at Beaver Liquors, a fact that surprises even some long-time locals and browse wines from almost every corner of the world.
Owner David Courtney became interested in wine while working in the restaurant industry in Chicago. After he and his wife moved to Vail, he worked for a small wine distributor, he started delivering to Beaver Liquors. He was creating momentum for his product, generating impressive sales, when then-owner Rick Cuny made him an offer he couldn’t refuse: A partnership with eventual buyout. That was in 1999; Courtney took over the business in 2006.
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