Newcomer Wines

Newcomer Wines is the Austrian-and-friends specialist that everyone else in the London trade quietly cribs from. The Dalston bottle-shop-and-bar runs a deep grüner and riesling list, an unusually long Burgenland blaufränkisch bench, and a rotating selection of small Eastern European producers most of central London does not import yet.

The room is tiny — a single railway-arch bar with counter seating and a few tables. The staff knowledge is unusually deep; most of them have visited the producers, and the by-the-glass board changes every week based on whichever bottle the team most wants you to try. Prices are honest, retail-plus-corkage where applicable, and tastings happen on a Saturday afternoon if you ask in advance.

It is the best room in London for anyone trying to learn central European wine in one sitting. Start with a flight, ask the staff one question, and let the rest of the evening go from there. The crowd is half wine-trade pilgrims, half Dalston locals who treat the place as their neighbourhood bar.

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