Get yourself a special bottle of grower champagne to celebrate a Christmas where we’ll all be together again. Last festive season Tom bought me a magnum of Efflorescence, with the promise that when we opened it, we’d be surrounded by people we love again. Needless to say, Efflorescence by Marie Courtin, the champagne house mastered by Dominique Moreau in Polisot, Cotes des Bar, means a lot to the both of us. But enough mushy stuff. What does it taste like? Smell like? Feel li

We’re hosting our first natural wine tasting event! On Thursday 12 August 2021 from 7pm until around 9.30pm (no rush), Katie will take you through five of our latest bottles from around Europe that have sparked our imagination and made us close our eyes and go “woah”. You’ll learn about the winemakers behind the wines and find out why they do what they do in the way that they do it. Of course, you’ll get to taste the five wines and learn about why they taste the way that they

If you’ve ever popped into our little temporary bottle shop (two weeks until it turn into a bar!) or you had a look on our webshop when it was online during the Delivery Days, you’ll have noticed our natural wine selection. Spanning France, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Argentina, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, we’ve had natural wines from all over the world on our shelves, from regions that you might never have heard of or d

Are you a vermouth person? We love it. Nigella loves it too, and honestly, whatever Nigella says should be law. Red vermouth, or “rosso”, has this wonderful warming character that’s ideal for early spring, when it’s sunny but there’s a bite of winter chill lingering in the air. If you’re not familiar with the drink, you might expect it to be syrupy like port, or even hot with alcohol like eau de vie, and while it’s around the 15% ABV mark, red vermouth has a mouthfeel much mo