One of the things I've discovered on my trips to Toulouse is a great wine bar, not "on the beaten track" as they say but you'll find some of the best wines you are ever likely to drink here.
The building itself is not swanky it looks like a proper wine bar should and some of the walls look like they have bullet holes in them, the focus is on the wine and the environment not on fancy lighting and colours. The website is equally understated the wine does the talking.
They specialise in truly natural wines, lots of wines describe themselves as organic but that most of the time just refers to the process by which grapes are grown, truly natural wines are defined by the Oxford Companion to Wine as:
- Grapes grown by small-scale, independent producers
- Grapes hand-picked from sustainable, organic, or biodynamic vineyards
- Wine fermented with native yeasts (no added yeast)
- No additives included in fermentation (like sugar)
- Little or no sulfites are added
To me anyway you don't necessarily have to a small-scale, independent producer, it is more about the rest, if you can do it at scale you'll be making lots of natural wine.
Music in the wine bar is provided by the thing called a record player using vinyl some at least reading this will remember those.
I've definitely got a taste for natural wines, they have the added benefit that you don't have the after effects of them the following morning.
Don't just take my word for it put "Nabuchodonosor wine bar toulouse" into google and read the reviews.
Personally what he has done has change my drinking habits, I'd rather pay more for a natural wine when in a restaurant and my wine cellar at home is slowly filling up with natural wines, they do require more care in terms of storage but the result is very worth it.
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