Journal
LIBATION AND EDUCATION
by Kitty Cooper
We are delighted to announce BREAD and WINE as the new home of our much-loved Open Bottle Wednesday. Allow us to explain. Every week we choose a bottle which may be new on our lists, or perhaps a perfect expression of a terroir or a varietal. We offer a glass, on us, to every person who comes through our doors between 5pm and 7pm, and we'll tell them a little about what they're drinking. Whether or not they stay.
AUTUMN RICHES
by Kitty Cooper
Think of these winemakers with their sore backs, fingers purple from picking and noses red from the elements (and maybe from the 2016 vintage, too)! Their Autumn endeavours are all for your Winter comfort and with this in mind we have put together a selection of wines, which invite the drinker to curl up against the cold. Presenting our November Case.
Patron Saints and Laden Plates
by Kitty Cooper
As the days draw in, thoughts turn to full glasses and fuller plates. We hesitate to mention festivities mere days into the start of Autumn, but we are reminded that long before Christmas feasting there were Winter celebrations in observation of a great many things, to comfort through the lengthening nights and guard against the cold.
A Theatrical Departure
by Kitty Cooper
We are very pleased to announce something a little different from St. JOHN - indeed something a little different for our brilliant city...
Announcing Victoria Sharples as Head of Wine Operations
by Kitty Cooper
Trevor Gulliver says “we have been quietly building our management team across our operations and this was a difficult role to fill. It needs good sense, experience and dynamism, as well as a sensitivity to the philosophies and attitudes that we hold dear.”
