An intensely personal wine bar, Fall from Grace is also an incredibly accessible one, with wine, cheese and salumi at retail pricing to take away or consume in-house. It’s also the best place to start a conversation with a local winemaker, as most are regulars.
Ask Gill what else she might have stashed away, as there are always hard-to-find gems not on the working wine list.
Fall From Grace is the sort of place you just get lost in. Gordon-Smith is blessed with this unstoppable desire to educate and share all she knows and loves about wine, and so expect to buy and drink things that you mightn’t normally. Expect to learn the backstory of each and every producer, and learn exactly why she has allocated precious shelf space to their bottles.
“We also have special bottles tucked away in the cellar,” Gordon-Smith says, “Ask for it and, if you twist my arm, I may just sell it!” The sorts of special bottles tucked away here are from producers like Gravner, Radikon, Cornelissen, Foradori, Tiberio, Valentini, Foillard and Gramenon. You can drink by the glass or the bottle, and like an Italian enoteca, there’s always a collection of cheeses and smallgoods that you can assemble to taste.
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