Until the first bottle is opened
Picked in September, in the bottle by October, drunk the moment it's legal. At one minute past midnight on the third Thursday of November the first wine of the harvest lands in London. We're sitting down to dinner first, then counting the last minute down together with a glass in hand.
600 bottles · 80 seats across two sittings · 250 bundles
The explainer
A whole wine region racing to get its harvest into a glass before winter. Zero cellaring, zero ceremony, one date in the diary. Here's the entire thing in four bits.
Gamay, from the granite hills north of Lyon. Light, red-fruited, built for drinking rather than waiting.
Harvest to bottle in about six weeks. Whole bunches, carbonic ferment, no oak, no filtering, no faff.
Nobody may sell a drop before 00:01 on the third Thursday of November. Same minute in Lyon, London and Tokyo.
Fridge cold, big glasses, something roasted on the table. Nobody has ever improved this wine by discussing it.
Our bottle
We've been going back to the same growers in Beaujolais for years, so this year we asked for our own cuvée: old-vine Gamay, hand-picked, carbonic, nothing added and nothing taken out. It was in a tank in Villié-Morgon in September and it will be in your fridge in November.
Pick your format
One bottle, 75cl. Enough for two people and a roast chicken.
Six bottles, better per-bottle price, free London delivery.
One bottle, a tote, and the limited-edition insulated wine caddy. Only 250 made, then it's gone for a year.
Pre-orders ship or are ready to collect from 19 November. Free London delivery over £60.
The dinner · Top Cuvée, Highbury
Sit down, eat a set menu built for Gamay, drink bottomless Nouveau, then count the last minute down at the table. Two sittings, 80 seats in total. Kitchen opens at 18:00 and the last table goes down at 22:00, so the late sitting eats its way to midnight.
40 seats, set menu, bottomless Nouveau from the moment you sit down. Nothing has legally arrived yet, which is entirely the point.
The other 40 seats, same menu, and a two-hour run at the countdown. Book this one if you want to be at the table at midnight.
Sixty seconds on the big screen. Everyone shouting. Corkscrews out.
First bottle opened, first glass free for everyone in the room. The youngest wine in the world, eight minutes old.
Tables stay put, plates come away, and you leave with a bottle for Thursday. Which is going to be difficult, and that's fine.
Set menu and bottomless Nouveau included. Price confirmed shortly, join the list below to get first booking.
Where to find it
Our Nouveau lands in these rooms on the 19th. Some open at midnight, some the morning after. Check with them, then go.
More being confirmed weekly. Want your bar on this list? Trade orders here →
You've got ten tabs open and a delivery window on the 18th. Allocation is by the case, London delivery is on us, and every account gets the point-of-sale kit so your floor team can sell it in one sentence.
30-day terms for existing accounts. New accounts, first order pro-forma.
Said about us
Booked the late sitting on a whim and ended up cheering at a wine that was eight minutes old. Best Wednesday of the year.
Ordered a case for a Thursday night in and drank it cold out of tumblers. Nobody asked what region it was from.
Two cases gone in a night and guests still asking for it in December. Easiest list addition of the year.
600 bottles, 80 dinner seats, 250 bundles. Drop your email and we'll tell you the moment pre-orders and dinner bookings open, before any of it goes on Instagram.