Despaña Vinos y Mas Shop
7:46 pm in Soho Wine Shops by KT Goldthorpe
Soho Wine Shops
Spanish
410 Broome St., 10013
Cross Streets: Lafayette & Centre St.
212-219-1550
Hours: tbd
The newest expansion of long time Spanish imports store Despaña is a compact but extremely well-stocked wine shop, right next door. The floor-to-ceiling shelves hold about 400 different wines – grouped according to region – and has the deepest txakoli, cava, and sherry selection of any wine store seen in the city… with 30 sherries, and more than 30 sparkling wines (and even several ciders).
Prices start at around $8, with more than 60% of the wines selling for less than $25. Though, at the high end, you will find bottles of Pingus and Vega Sicilia Unico (upwards of $700). The adjacent food shop makes it easy to provide tastings with cheeses, cured meats and other tidbits.
The store’s sherry category will be “the most challenging but nevertheless fun category;” ranging in price from $7 to $113 a bottle, although half of that number are wines that cost less than $25. Interestingly, they sell “about three or four bottles of Sherry a week;” including that $113.00 one.
Despana also offers educational tastings, to help widen their customers’ knowledge. There will be free tastings of wine and food pairings on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month, from 5 to 7 p.m.
