The most tightly edited natural-wine list in the city, run by an operator who drinks his own list.
wine · Modern Obelisco opened in 2022 as a side project from a former SEDE 261 sommelier and has since become the room natural-wine importers actually want to drink in. The list, sixty bottles, almost entirely low-intervention, weighted toward Catalan xarel-lo, Etna whites and Brazilian field blends, is updated every Tuesday on a single sheet of A4.
The room is twenty seats, the soundtrack is unfashionably good Brazilian jazz, and the food is limited to a charcuterie plate, a sourdough flatbread and one rotating chef's snack. Owner-operator Felipe Sá pours every glass himself most nights, which is part of the point. Sixth because the editing is severe and the buying remains genuinely original, there are bottles here you cannot find at any other Paulistano address.
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