Around Wine

Need a beautiful piece-​of-​artwork wine decanter as a table centrepiece? How about a £150 wine bottle opener? Is your flat missing a self-​contained cooling rack to ensure your bottles are kept at the perfect temperature? Or are you a road-​warrior oenophile that needs to travel frequently between continents with pricey bottles of vino in tow?
Well, if you replied ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, you’re just in luck because I recently stumbled across just the shop for you!
Around Wine sells all of the above, and so much more. Including various types of wine bottle stoppers, pour spouts, tasting kits, and more varieties of Reidel glasses (including ones perfect for that single malt whisky for those of us less into fermented grapes) than you could shake a stick at!
And to top it all off, the gent behind the counter was so friendly and polite, patiently showing me around to all the offerings available in this small-​but-​mighty store. He might have actually been grateful to have a prospective customer to engage with, but I learned more about serving wine in five minutes than I’d known in the many years of my life up until that point.
Marylebone might be full of chains and soulless corporate office buildings, but little gems like this –do– exist. It’s always a fun surprise to stumble upon one of them!