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Alexandria and Annapolis St. Patrick's Day parades, film festivals and much more to do the first weekend of March in D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

And this new DC directory will help.

Despite a regional history of viniculture that reaches back more than 5,000 years, wines that come from Eastern Mediterranean countries like Lebanon, Palestine, and Turkey don’t carry the same cache on the U.S. market as their mainstream European counterparts. In D.C., a hit new wood-burning Middle Eastern restaurant is on a mission to improve their reputation among American drinkers. At Albi, some of the city’s most accomplished sommeliers pitch customers bottles that are often difficult t...