DETROIT LAKES — As Clarity Wine Bar owner Chelsey Malstrom put it in the Facebook post announcing the imminent opening of her new business in Detroit Lakes: "Wine not get excited?"

After all, a wine bar is one of the few things that's been lacking in the town's resume of attractions to offer visitors and prospective residents — as stressed by Malstrom in her first-place-winning pitch for Pitch 412, local nonprofit Project 412's annual entrepreneurship competition.

"That got me a lot of exposure," Malstrom said of the live pitch portion of the competition, held on May 6 at the Historic Holmes Theatre — not to mention the $4,000 cash prize that came with the win.

Malstrom, a 2008 Detroit Lakes High School graduate, brings more than a decade of experience in the wine business to her f

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