Hyde Park wine haunts

Deborah Katz

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Compiled the way I compile everything: on index cards, over several Sunday jazz brunches, with strong opinions about which bottle pairs with which ending argument. This is less a definitive wine map than a reader's advisory for grapes — where I send book club when the plot (or the Merlot) needs help, and where 57th Street still smells faintly of the old bookshop it replaced.

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Hyde Park wine haunts — 4 items
Name	Spot	Address	City	Pour to try	My take
157th Street Wines	57th Street Wines	1448 E 57th St	Chicago	Canary Islands white, something with salinity	Housed in the old O'Gara & Wilson bookstore, so I half expect the Gewürztraminer to smell like marginalia. The Thursday tastings are my unofficial second book club.
2A&S Beverages Wine & Spirits	A&S Beverages Wine & Spirits	1214 E 53rd St	Chicago	Whatever the staff is excited about that week	Family-run since 1982, which in library terms means they've outlasted several card catalog systems. Ask for a recommendation and actually listen.
3Binny's Beverage Depot (Kenwood)	Binny's Beverage Depot	1531 E 53rd St	Chicago	Sancerre, for the Hemingway in all of us	Small footprint, deep bench. Good for when the book club disagrees so violently we need a backup bottle on the way home.
4The Promontory	The Promontory	5311 S Lake Park Ave	Chicago	A glass from the forgotten-grape list, red	Named for the lakefront point where I've argued about Austen endings in better weather. The wine list leans toward regions history nearly forgot, which feels very on-brand for a librarian.