Lou Wine Shop & Tastings

Lou Wine Shop & Tastings A friendly neighborhood wine shop in Los Feliz.
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Tonight’s tasting from 6-8 pm$15 +10% off wines tastedLes Equilibristes “Zestos” Pét-nat Vin de France NVManoir de la Tê...
10/09/2024

Tonight’s tasting from 6-8 pm
$15 +10% off wines tasted

Les Equilibristes “Zestos” Pét-nat Vin de France NV
Manoir de la Tête Rouge “A Tue-Tête” Grolleau Gris Vin de France 2021
Galbrun “Antidote” Vin de France 2021
Les Athlètes du Vin Grolleau Vin de France 2022
Domaine de l’Austral “Octopus Rouge” Vin de France 2022

Pundits such as Jancis Robinson have dismissed grolleau as “basic, bland,” and “it is to the benefit of wine drinkers that it is so systematically being replaced,” or worse, Robert Parker, bitching that it should be “ripped up and replaced.” I respect Robinson and have learned quite a lot from her and believe that Robert Parker has done more than most to f**k up modern wine, but both miss the boat with this grape. Grolleau is a grape that has been biding its time, patiently waiting for us, if only we’d listen to what it says.

Please join us this Wednesday night, September 25th, to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We have special guest Joe Laraja...
09/25/2024

Please join us this Wednesday night, September 25th, to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We have special guest Joe Laraja of Found Oyster at the shop shucking oysters for your delectation, and straight out of Glendale, the delightful Armenian herb flatbread zhengyalov hatz from the Armenian bakery, appropriately named Zhengyalov Hatz (IYKYK). We’re pouring a flight of five wines appropriate for a warm summer eve with oysters, including an ultralight and ultra-mineral chilled, red vinho verde, extraordinary Muscadet from Jérôme Bretaudeau, bone-dry fizz from Penedès, flinty fiano from Campania, and a bit of Lafarge’s aligoté.

Sad NY cheesecake. The cherry sp***ge on top is particularly unappealing.
09/12/2024

Sad NY cheesecake. The cherry sp***ge on top is particularly unappealing.

Shiny, slick, sleazy. What's behind the door?
09/11/2024

Shiny, slick, sleazy. What's behind the door?

"All of my old longing to excel in Paper-Bag Cookery reasserted itself, and I at once sent a challenge to my German riva...
08/17/2024

"All of my old longing to excel in Paper-Bag Cookery reasserted itself, and I at once sent a challenge to my German rival." New York, 1911.

Tonight's tasting: Jura treasures
08/14/2024

Tonight's tasting: Jura treasures

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07/24/2024

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Tonight's tasting
07/17/2024

Tonight's tasting

In the wine trade, some folks categorize certain wines as “premium,” which inevitably evokes gasoline in my literal-brai...
07/16/2024

In the wine trade, some folks categorize certain wines as “premium,” which inevitably evokes gasoline in my literal-brained mind. “Value,” and “luxury” are other terms of parlance, but they don’t evoke much at all—value is nearly empty of signification, other than the SuperValu supermarket chain (RIP); luxury, for some reason, evokes a velvet-lined casket holding glinting gems that only the few, the elect may pour through their hands with a cackle. These are economic categories with price points attached to them: a value wine is under ten dollars on the shelf, whereas a luxury wine will set you back fifty or a hundred dollars. But the quality of a wine is not a static value, not the donnée. If you hold a Franzia bag-in-box aloft and guzzle straight from the box, lips around the spigot, and declare it to be the best damn thing you’ve ever put in your mouth, I can’t argue with you—you do you. I can’t feel lousy for not drinking all the fine, aged Burgundy that I know, just know in my heart that I truly deserve because I am not a rich man. I do get to drink good Beaujolais, Lambrusco, Loire chenin, Austrian furmint, Langhe nebbiolo, etc., etc. with regularity, but when do I ever pause and regret that I am missing out, “I’d really rather be drinking Lafarge Volnay”? Now, back in the day, Europeans required wine, as it provided significant calories to an oft meager diet. Today, despite Thomas Jefferson’s assertion that wine is a necessity of life, no one need drink wine. To be sure, for nearly every human being on earth a twenty, or even ten-dollar bottle of wine is an impossible luxury. That said, with some simple, reasonably priced wines, depending on context, the phase of the moon, the vagaries of your neurochemistry, the hedonic pleasure-o-meter’s needle goes to ten, and there is no 11. You could die a happy person at that very moment as you drain the bottle (but please don’t, I like having you around). It is a profound mystery how yeasts and bacteria transmute what would otherwise b a delicious fruit juice into something like this, and how is it that a simple, ugh, “value” wine can, at times, be every bit as momentarily luxurious as a jewel in a casket?

Tonight's tasting
07/10/2024

Tonight's tasting

Tonight's tasting 6-8 pm
07/03/2024

Tonight's tasting 6-8 pm

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1911 Hillhurst Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
90027

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 8pm
Tuesday 11am - 8pm
Wednesday 11am - 8pm
Thursday 11am - 8pm
Friday 11am - 8pm
Saturday 11am - 8pm
Sunday 12pm - 7pm

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+13233057004

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I took the train downtown to get pizza at Scarr's on Orchard St. Afterward, I walked uptown towards Union Sq., stopping at the NY Housing Authority on Broadway, and then took the 4 train uptown to 86th St. Has the 4 always made limited stops during rush hour (I loved it...suddenly, you're all the way uptown)? I'm ashamed to say I cannot recall. About to enter the Guggenheim.

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