Good bottles, low light, no fuss.
A below-street bar and a tiny open kitchen. The list changes every week. Bottles from growers we know by name. No corkage on Mondays.
Forty seats, a hundred bottles, and nowhere to hide a bad one.
We opened in 2018 with a short list and a long memory. The room is small on purpose — candlelight, oak, a marble bar you can lean on — because the wine and the bread should do the talking.
Everything we pour is low-intervention: real farming, native yeast, little or nothing added. Some of it is gorgeous. Some of it is gloriously weird. We'll tell you which is which, and we'll never make you feel small for asking.
40
seats, by candlelight
120
growers on the list
Mon
no corkage, ever
This week's pours. It won't be here Friday.
“Orange, skinsy, a little feral. Trust us.” — every Tuesday, roughly.
Pét-Nat, “Bubbles & Trouble”
Lucy Margaux · Adelaide Hills · NV
$16
Cloudy, gingery, dangerously easy
Ribolla Gialla, skin contact
Radikon · Friuli, IT · ’21
$19
Orange, tannic, dried apricot
Gamay
Jean Foillard · Morgon, FR · ’22
$18
Crunchy red fruit, serve cold
Chardonnay, unoaked
Ochota Barrels · Basket Range · ’22
$17
Saline, chalky, no makeup
Prices in AUD · 150ml pours · corkage $30 (free Mondays)
Small plates, made for sharing and arguing over.
A tiny open kitchen, a wood grill, and whatever the market gave us this morning. It changes, like the list. Open the sections.
- Warm olives, orange, fennel seed$9
- House focaccia, cultured butter$8
- Gildas — anchovy, olive, guindilla$14
We buy from people, not portfolios.
Most of what's downstairs we tasted at a kitchen table, somewhere muddy, with the person who made it. We back small growers early and pour them by the glass before they're fashionable — which is the only time they're affordable.
If you find something you love, tell the bar. We'll write the name on your bill, and there's a fair chance there's a case of it down the stairs with your name on the chalk.
Zero-zero
nothing added, nothing taken
By the glass
rare bottles, fair pours
Off-list
ask — there’s always more
“The best little wine list in the city, and they'll actually talk to you about it.”
Broadsheet · Top 10 wine bars
Pull up a stool.
The bar is always walk-in. For a table, leave us a note and we'll sort it the same evening. Big group? Tell us and we'll build a list around you.