This lively neighbourhood wine bar serves cocktail-party energy via excellent tunes, top-notch drinks and generous tasty snacks delivered by staff who are having a good time doing it.
If you haven’t already got it from the name, Alt Wine Bar’s feature wall of vino means there’s no mistaking what drink you should be ordering here. The bottle-lined shelves will grow as the eclectic wine range does to eventually cover one wall. The list, divided into categories like “rich, big boys” and “skinsy, weird, wonderful” covers all regions and tastes. Ask the staff – who have worked in all areas of the wine industry – for their recommendation and try something new.
If you’ve come for cocktails, it’s hard to ignore the pretty-in-pink Beauty School Dropout – venue manager Courtney Price’s riff on a Sgroppino – which mixes vermouth, blood-orange sorbet and natural sparkling, then showers it all in sprinkles. “It's a party,” says Adam. "Perfectly representative of our venue and what we're all about.”
