A wine bar named ‘Humble Grape’ – celebrating the humble grape from which all wine springs, with an honest, unpretentious love of good wine
Humble Grape at Canary Wharf holds ten hundred and ten reviews and a strong 4.7 – an excellent score on a large sample – and it carries a warm and appealing name, celebrating the humble grape from which all wine springs, with an honest, unpretentious, genuine love of good wine.
The strong score
First, the numbers – and here they are genuinely strong: a 4.7 across some eleven hundred reviews. This is an excellent rating on a large and meaningful sample, marking Humble Grape as a genuinely well-run and much-loved wine bar. To achieve a 4.7 across over a thousand reviews is a real mark of quality and consistency – a genuinely good, well-run, much-liked venue that consistently delights its many customers. It is a strong score honestly earned on a large sample, and it marks Humble Grape as one of the genuine successes of this part of the survey – a wine bar that is clearly doing things very well.
The humble grape
“Humble Grape” is a warm and appealing name, celebrating the humble grape – the small, unassuming fruit of the vine from which all the world’s wine springs. There is a lovely humility and honesty to the name. Wine can be one of the most pretentious of subjects – wrapped in snobbery, mystique, intimidating jargon and expense – but “Humble Grape” deliberately sets all this aside, going back to the honest, humble root of it all: the simple grape. It celebrates wine not as a subject for snobbery but as the honest, wonderful product of the humble grape – approachable, unpretentious, genuine. The name promises exactly this welcome spirit – an honest, unpretentious, approachable love of good wine, free of snobbery, rooted in the simple pleasure of the grape and the vine. It is a genuinely appealing philosophy, and a lovely name.
The honest love of wine
The “humble” spirit reflects a genuine and appealing approach to wine – the honest, unpretentious, approachable celebration of good wine for everyone. There is a real movement in the modern wine world towards this welcome spirit – away from snobbery and intimidation, towards approachability, honesty, and the genuine sharing of the pleasure of good wine. Wine bars in this spirit focus on interesting, well-chosen, often independent and artisan wines, served without pretension, with genuine knowledge and enthusiasm shared warmly and accessibly. “Humble Grape” plants itself firmly in this appealing tradition – promising good, interesting, well-chosen wine, served with honest enthusiasm and without snobbery, an approachable and genuine celebration of the vine. Its strong score suggests it delivers this beautifully – a well-loved, well-run, genuinely welcoming wine bar.
There is real warmth and appeal in the whole thing – the humble, honest name, the unpretentious love of good wine, the approachable and genuine celebration of the grape and the vine, all delivered (the strong score shows) to an excellent standard. It is exactly the kind of warm, honest, quality-focused, unpretentious wine bar that this survey admires – good wine, honestly celebrated, for everyone. The Prat’s desk, which heartily approves of setting snobbery aside, orders an interesting glass, salutes the humble grape, and drinks to the honest love of good wine.
The bar
A strong, much-loved wine bar and restaurant doing an excellent 4.7 across a large sample, warmly named “Humble Grape” – celebrating the humble grape and the honest, unpretentious love of good wine.
Verdict
Strong, much-loved, and honestly appealing – Humble Grape, celebrating the humble grape with an unpretentious, genuine love of good wine for everyone.
Go to Humble Grape for an interesting glass of well-chosen wine, and enjoy the honest name – the humble grape, celebrated without snobbery, an approachable and genuine love of the vine from which all wine springs.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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