Craft beer bars and clubs are great sometimes, but we’ve been craving a change of pace recently – a chic, breezy locale where we can sip fine wine by the glass, get a little buzz and not burn through half our monthly paycheck doing so.
Sun in Sky’s newly unveiled wine bar on Party Pier has taken our long-held wish and fulfilled it with a concept more spectacular than we could have imagined.
We anticipated, for instance, that a showroom with Sun in Sky’s ostentatious interior would charge at least RMB90 per glass, but that’s hardly the case. Varieties featured on the list of weekly specials, selected by Ye Liujie – the wine department manager and allegedly the first Chinese person to receive an AIS sommelier certification – start at a very affordable RMB38 a glass.
On Friday and Sunday nights, the entire collection of more than 1,000 bottles is buy-one-glass-get-one-free, so you can open a vintage variety you wouldn’t normally dare touch and split the cost of one glass with a friend.
Avoid our mistake and locate the wine bar’s own entrance instead of walking through the entire fashion showroom to get there (those gorgeous dresses will empty your wallet before you make it to the bar, trust us).
You can opt to sit at the counter, which we prefer, or on plush leather chairs in dimly lit rooms inside, designed to be a little too lavish.
Ninety percent of the wines in stock are Italian, which means Giulia Biscontin, a bubbly young wine connoisseur from Veneto who will likely be there when you visit, knows exactly the variety for your taste.
We were impressed not just with the wine, but also with the surprisingly down-to-earth ambiance. And now that Sun in Sky hosts regular movie nights, ‘ladies drink for free’ Wednesdays and Aperiwine Saturdays (where you can enjoy two glasses of wine and an Italian buffet for RMB98), it feels like we have an excuse to drop in for a glass or two every night of the week!
Price: RMB38 and up
Good for: great deals on Italian wine, a stunning atmosphere
Who’s going: stylish young women, wine lovers of all ages
Nearest metro: Canton Tower (Exit A), 24 minutes
Open daily, 3pm-midnight. See listing for Sun in Sky.
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