One of the newest additions to the Lower East Side wine scene is Parcelle, a formerly online-only wine retailer that set up roots with a tiny Division Street bar this past summer. In addition to a wine list and elevated bar snacks, Parcelle offers weekly wine classes. His sister, Paris McGarry, is responsible for the wine program. The bar comes from self-proclaimed former teen chef Fynn McGarry, who staged at restaurants like Noma and Eleven Madison Park. The most intimate of the bunch, tucked in an unassuming block of Broome Street mostly known for laundromats and bodegas, Gem Wine is the casual little sibling of new-Nordic tasting menu restaurant Gem, located just around the corner. There are few better places to take in the Dimes Square scene. Wine-list wise, it’s a crowd pleasing selection of mostly European producers and relatively affordable, with glasses starting at $13 and bottles at $42. In warmer months, if you can snag a sidewalk table, order a bottle and a mushroom pâté or steak tartar, you could almost be tricked into thinking you’re on Canal St. Le Dive aims to recreate that classic Parisian tabac experience: a lively space with a long zinc bar, neon tube lights, and cafe tables topped with glasses of wine and simple jambon beurre. (It doesn't hurt that the LES, for short, is also home to super-cool Nine Orchard hotel, set on the huddle of bars, restaurants, and shops known as Dimes Square.) Whether it’s a familiar, juicy red you're craving or the joy of discovering something totally new, there's no better place to drink wine in the New York City right now. Now, you can’t walk a block without finding a great place to pop in for a quick glass at the bar, or a bottle to linger over with friends-and you won’t find any other neighborhood with as many carefully chosen lists in the entire city. From a resident’s perspective, though, it feels like it happened overnight. Ten Bells, the neighborhood's longstanding natural wine and tapas bar, was ahead of the curve when it opened its doors back in 2008, and the others have slowly trickled in since. “The wine scene on the Lower East Side hasn't all of sudden emerged out of nowhere, so much as it has vastly and rapidly expanded since the early days of Ten Bells,” says Eben Lillie, owner of Skin Contact, an intimate wine bar on Orchard Street with boundary pushing bottles. Over the past few years, a standout landscape of wine lists has been bubbling up across New York City's buzzy Lower East Side and this past summer, it exploded.
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