Casa di Vino will be closing this week after nearly seven years in business. Your wine & food guy has been mulling over the years passed and considering the merits of success and/or failure of CdV. In purely economic terms Casa di Vino finishes as a failure. If it wasn't we probably wouldn't be closing the doors. The economic collapse of 2008 was a serious hit to Casa di Vino's bottom line and we've never fully recovered. I'd like to believe if America hadn't fallen into our 2nd Great Depression CdV might be flourishing here in 2011. Perhaps not. One of the other reasons CdV is closing our doors is reduced market share. Iowa has no limit on retail wine licenses unlike many other states so anyone with $500 can purchase one. Although the number of wine consumers in Iowa is surely growing the number of folks selling wine has grown exponentially. How to bring more customers through the door has flummoxed minds much greater than my own. These are Casa di Vino's failures. Let's look at the flip side though.