Monopole is a wine bar in Potts Point, Sydney.
Brent Savage and Nick Hildebrandt's wine bar on Macleay Street, Potts Point, Sydney. Open 7 nights; small-plates menu and natural-leaning wine list.
Food program: Charcuterie, cheese, sourdough
Address: 71a Macleay Street, Potts Point NSW 2011, Sydney
Wine Library on Oxford Street, Woollahra. Deep by-the-glass list, snack menu and a regular Sydney crowd through the late afternoon and evening.
Signature pour: Etna Rosso by the glass
Wine focus: Italian and small-producer Australian
Food: Italian small plates and pasta
Italian-leaning wine bar on Devonshire Street, Surry Hills, Sydney. Italian small plates, low-intervention bottles by the glass, late seating common.
Signature pour: Nebbiolo from Piedmont
Wine focus: Italian wines by the glass
Food: Pasta and aperitivo bites
Eastern European-leaning wine bar on Devonshire Street, Surry Hills, Sydney. Natural-leaning by-the-glass list, walk-in friendly weeknights, small plates.
Signature pour: Slovenian orange wine
Wine focus: Eastern European and natural growers
Food: Eastern European snacks
Bottle shop and bar on Enmore Road, Newtown, Sydney. Mike Bennie and Lou Dowling's natural-wine retail by day, by-the-glass and pintxos by night.
Signature pour: Hunter Valley semillon
Wine focus: Natural and minimal-intervention Australian
Food: Bar snacks and tinned fish
Vermouth and sherry bar on King Street, Newtown, Sydney. Tinned-fish pintxos, Spanish-leaning tapas and a list of 40+ vermouths by the glass.
Signature pour: Manzanilla sherry flight
Wine focus: Vermouth, sherry, fortified wines
Food: Spanish tapas
French wine bar attached to Porcine restaurant on Marian Street, Redfern, Sydney. Natural wines by the glass and charcuterie in a 24-seat room.
Signature pour: Loire cabernet franc
Wine focus: French growers, biodynamic-leaning
Food: Charcuterie and rillettes
