Poco Vino boutique would make a splash in Tallahassee on Adams Road

 Poco Vino is a new boutique wine store and function area on Adams Road in downtown Tallahassee that has by now made a good deal of excitement. 

 One explanation: It’s not just a wine store. 

“It’s the very first genuine downtown retail area in, I’m estimating to be 10 years, so that is big,” claimed Elizabeth Emmanuel, CEO of the Downtown Advancement Authority in Tallahassee. “One of the matters people check with for in the neighborhood is ‘where can I get locally built presents? The place can I get a bottle of wine, a birthday card, a snack.’ All individuals items that people are inquiring for, you can obtain here.”

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Emmanuel was a single of many local community, small business and political leaders attending Monday’s ribbon-slicing for the new shop, situated in an intimate historic making that will also be a put for wine tastings, popup dinners with cooks from throughout the South, gatherings and private parties. It also has a place set aside for retail, mainly objects from artisans and nearby present stores.

A retail presence 

“There are many instances when I’m on the operate that I need to have to decide up a hostess present, or a birthday gift,” said Condition Rep. Allison Tant. “It’s likely to be good not to have to depart downtown to do so. And I adore that it is a woman-owned and gals-run business.”

She’s chatting about Amanda Morrison, the female guiding the store with husband or wife Agustin “Gus” Corbella.

Corbella credits Morrison for dreaming up Poco Vino and its possible to breathe new lifetime into downtown.

“It’s her vision and she created her eyesight a actuality,” mentioned Corbella.

Morrison, formerly a controlling companion for Social Catering and Activities, is the owner of Content Motoring in the residence of a one particular-time Southside fuel station and has been named one of Tallahassee’s 25 Women of all ages You Want to Know.  An lively volunteer, she released the Adams Avenue Flea Industry, which features do the job by area artisans on the to start with Saturday of every month. 

Law firm Corbella is a longtime lobbyist and federal government qualified, presently the senior director of the Government Law & Policy Follow at Greenberg Traurig, LLP. His several roles include the chairman of Florida Point out University’s Opening Evenings Undertaking Arts Progress Council. 

Morrison and Corbella are both sommeliers with a passion for wine, fantastic food stuff and vacation with a want to carry customers again to downtown Tallahassee. 

A emphasis on ‘real wine’ 

“Wine is like an extension of the Renaissance we’re observing in food stuff,” claimed Morrison. “We’re viewing extra of an appreciation of foodstuff and people seeking to educate them selves. It is that way with wine as nicely.”

One of her hopes is to introduce clients to wines they haven’t tried using ahead of.

The focus is on about 100 labels,  “small output wines that are 10,000 circumstances a calendar year or considerably less created,” claimed Morrison. “Everything is grown responsibly so some kind of sustainable or natural or biodynamic farming so it’s genuinely excellent, superior high-quality wine.”

“The foreseeable future of wine is seriously biodynamic and natural and organic and sustainable and we’re really enthusiastic to aspect those wines below at Poco Vino,” added Corbella. “Even the greater houses of wine you might be common with are going toward liable farming and wine building. Men and women want to drink wine and wine is grape juice and it shouldn’t be chemical substances, it should not be pesticides or additives. We’re thrilled to be featuring actual wine here.”

One particular illustration of individuals wines: Thibaud Boudignon Anjou Blanc from the Loire Valley of France. 

“Thibaud Boudignon is a rock star of the pure wine environment and tends to make what is generally viewed as the finest Chenin Blanc in the world,” explained Morrison. “This wine sold out in the condition of Florida inside of 12 several hours and we managed to snag a case.”

Poco Vino also showcases labels from females winemakers such as Australia’s Vasse Felix Filius Cabernet Sauvignon created by Virginia Wilcock Hedges Spouse and children Estate wine from Washington, a relatives-owned corporation that consists of daughter and winemaker Sarah Hedges Ghost Block Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, a premier Cabernet manufactured by winemaker Kristi 

Kolford.

“We’ll be in a position to explain to you something about each and every single wine in the shop and the tale of how every solitary wine is manufactured,” reported Morrison, who is concentrating on wineries with sustainable farming strategies. “Wine is turning into far more accessible.”

Variety in the wine globe extends to Black winemakers, sommeliers and entrepreneurs, claimed Morrison, and contains winemaker André Hueston Mack of Maison Noir Wines, Shakira Jones, who writes the web site BlackGirlsDineToo and Sarah Pierre, owner of 3 Parks Wine Store in Atlanta.  of her hopes is to introduce shoppers to wines they have not experimented with before.

Bringing interesting stuff

“I enjoy bringing what is trending in other metropolitan areas to Tallahassee,” reported Morrison. “There’s no explanation why we simply cannot have amazing things listed here.”

Real estate agent Christie Perkins could not concur a lot more. 

“I was there for a private event and I can notify you that the house is like none other in Tallahassee,” she mentioned. “It’s truly a phase up for our downtown and an case in point of how we need to make retail, not law or lobbyist places of work, a precedence downtown if we are heading to have the vibrant downtown that we so crave.”