New in the cellar: six growers from the Loire
Chenin, cabernet franc and a crémant, from families who farm a few hectares each (sample).
An independent wine shop chosen bottle by bottle
Four hundred wines from small growers, every one tasted before it reaches the shelf. Open six days a week on Vine Street (sample).
The cellar
small, chosen, tasted
Vine Street Cellar (sample) is one long room under a vaulted ceiling, with bottles on three walls and a counter at the back where something is always open. We buy from about sixty growers, most of them families who farm a few hectares and make the wine themselves.
Ask for a bottle for tonight, a case for a wedding or a wine that tastes like the place you came back from. We will open something for you to try.
Our shop
On Vine Street since 2009, run by two people who still taste every bottle (sample)
Elena started the shop with a hundred bottles and a borrowed counter. Fifteen years later the cellar holds four hundred wines, and she still drives to see most of the growers before she buys.
We would rather sell you one good bottle you will remember than a case you will not. Tell us what you are cooking, who you are meeting or what you liked last time, and we will find the wine.
Bottle of the month
a cool limestone slope makes this chenin taste of pears and wet stone
Les Pierres Chenin blanc 2022
Loire valley, dry white, 12.5%, from a family estate of six hectares (sample)
Example price $28 a bottle, $150 for six
Elena Marsh
Buyer and owner (sample)
On the counter this month
Four bottles we keep opening for customers. Every one is in the shop today; ask and we put one aside for you.
Maison Lune Brut
Champagne, traditional method
Fine bubbles, brioche and green apple.
$46
Les Pierres Chenin blanc 2022
Loire valley, dry white
Pear, quince and a stony, salty finish.
$28
Côte Haute Gamay 2021
Beaujolais, light red
Cherries and pepper; serve it a little cool.
$22
Example prices. Over 21 only; we may ask for ID at the counter.
From the journal
Notes from the cellar: new arrivals, tastings and what to open this week
How to open an older bottle
Stand it up the day before, pull the cork slowly and pour against the light (sample).
What to open with the first cold evenings
Light reds, rich whites and one bottle to keep for a long dinner (sample).
Visit the shop
Something is always open on the counter to taste. Ask us to put a bottle aside and collect it on your way home.
Find us
Vine Street Cellar (sample)
14 Vine Street, Springfield
Call the shop
(555) 018-4400
Tue–Sat 10:00–20:00, Sun 12:00–17:00 (sample)
Write to us
[email protected]
We reply within one working day