LES has always been concentrated with many bars and restaurants and given that so many people want to drink natural wine now, I think the neighborhood is responding.” Peoples Wine opened in 2019 hoping to merge the experience of a bar and wine shop. “They were doing something a decade ago that is now en vogue. “Without places like Ten Bells and Wildair, the natural wine scene in LES wouldn’t exist,” Daryl Nuhn of Peoples Wine says. Just in the last six months there have been multiple noteworthy openings ( Parcelle and Le Dive, to name a couple), plus mainstays that have been around for several years like The Ten Bells, a natural wine bar that opened in 2008 and that’s considered by many to be a pioneer in the category. The energy in this neighborhood has long attracted creatives - anyone who has lived in or knows the history of Manhattan is aware of this - but specifically as it pertains to the concept of the wine bar, the LES has decidedly become the enclave for ordering a glass of interesting wine. Frankly, I felt slightly out of place - but in the good, sociological safari kind of way. But more than anything, it was the collective gushing over underrated grape varieties, lesser-known wine regions, and groundbreaking wine importers from the waiter and closely-seated patrons that stuck with me.
Did the crowd of obnoxiously attractive youths with perfectly undone, irreverent style perched out front have something to do with this? I won’t deny that. We sat outside and ordered a glass of orange wine from Campania and I distinctly remember thinking on my subway ride home that something magnetic had been in the air.
#SKIN CONTACT BAR SKIN#
Last summer, I met up with a friend in Manhattan’s Lower East Side at a recently-opened bar on Orchard Street called Skin Contact (technically reopened, they debuted a month before Covid shut down the city).
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