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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.

Our aim is to allow people to really get to know their way around our handsome wine lists, with none of the fiscal commitment that such an understanding would otherwise entail. We import all our wine ourselves, directly from like-minded producers with whom we have built unique relationships over more than twenty years. Our sincere wish is to share that knowledge with you.

OPEN BOTTLE WEDNESDAY
St. JOHN Bread and Wine
Every Wednesday
5pm - 7pm

Trevor's views and adventures

Keykegs and Hugh the Campaigner, jobs for the (Brexit) boys and some light relief in Paris and elsewhere.

I’m waiting for someone to tell me that keykegs are not generally single use plastic items here in the UK, anybody? Meanwhile I have taken the liberty of attaching an opinion piece that Root & Bone magazine asked me to write.

Change - the bad and the good

Let’s get straight to it: keykegs are becoming popular and people ask why we do not have them. Don’t we hold eco values? But those values are the reason we don’t have them: recycling. Key kegs, for those who do not know, are plastic barrels for wine or beer on draft. Salesmen of product packaged in this way are somewhat, well, diffident on the subject as they push their product. So here are the facts: they are only recyclable through one company currently in the UK, who take payment to take them away, and who undertake this as a "marketing exercise”...

Travel Looms

I’ve learnt to curtail my luddish tendencies - many will know that I’ve sometimes refused to regard the fact that St. JOHN really is a 'brand'. But now we have our wines carrying our own label, so fair enough! And happy we are to produce these. However when I visited Lisbon a while back and was shown around the new Time Out Market I was not impressed.

THE WINERY

This is St. JOHN’s winery, Boulevard Napoleon, in the Languedoc village of La Livinière.

In a twist of perfect porcine serendipity, the building is an old pig sty, making Trevor’s local nickname (The Pig) particularly apt – as you can imagine, he spends rather a lot of time here.

Words by Mina Holland, photographs by Elena Heatherwick

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