“I like having my own coffee machine close at hand all the time,” Dan says
Eliza: Definitely there are a couple of wines that we love and have
perspicuity of style and be easy to buy. We have a few of those
of the Scholium Project wines because I met Abe [Schoener] at the
amounts of them.
meant a lot to us. Pommard we’ve got because we stayed there
when we were in Burgundy and had a lovely time. We’ve got some Raw Wine Fair a couple of years ago. The wines are just the most lovely things – they are way too high-end for our shop. Dan: Every now and then someone does buy them.
People in other parts of the country reading about a wine merchant in east London might assume all your customers are hipsters into their natural wines. Is there any truth in that? Dan: A little bit, but there are people who are in their 30s and they’ve got small kids and are looking at schools and being sensible. It’s maybe grown-up hipsters!
Eliza: You could look at us and think it could be all natural wines and full of tattooed hipsters, but actually it’s not like that. Again we want to be welcoming and open and for the wines to show
really funky things for sure, but in order to allow people to choose and be really confident in choosing wines, we don’t have huge
Everything has a label that has a really full description according
to the taste of it.
I think the aim is to be open and approachable. I want people
to be able to say, “I like a Sauvignon Blanc” and to be able to get a nice version. It might be naturally made or whatever, but that
won’t be the thing that’s put it on the shelf – that is the last thing
you mention because the wine is beautiful and the winemaking is there to back up the flavour. It’s not there to sell the wine. How often do you refresh the range?
Eliza: Constantly. It’s fun. It’s the joy of owning your own place
rather than working for somebody else. I’ve always done tastings
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