Having a vine time

Maureen Pond, left, of Oak Park, and Kim Lavin, of Berwyn, try out different samples of wine on Nov. 2, during the annual Fall Wine Walk and Shop event at Centuries and Sleuth’s bookstore on Madison Street in downtown Forest Park. | ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

Steve Carter, of Glen Ellyn, explains the taste of the different wine samples on Nov. 2, during the annual Fall Wine Walk and Shop event at Centuries and Sleuth’s on Madison Street in downtown Forest Park, Ill. | ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

Participants sample different types of wine on Nov. 2, during the annual Fall Wine Walk and Shop event at Takara in downtown Forest Park, Ill. | ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

Steve Carter, of Glen Ellyn, serves samples of wine to participants on Nov. 2, during the annual Fall Wine Walk and Shop event at Centuries and Sleuth’s bookstore on Madison Street in downtown Forest Park. | ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

Margie Coleman, of Forest Park, and Kim Lavin, of Berwyn, savor a sip at Centuries and Sleuths Bookstore. | Alex Rogals/Staff Photographer

Marissa Rivera (top left), of Willowbrook, serves up samples of wine at Takara to lovers of the grape who flocked to Madison Street for the Forest Park Chamber of Commerce’s Fall Wine Walk and shop event on Nov. 2. | Alex Rogals/Staff Photographer