Last week I wrote about ØL Beercafe & Bottle Shop focusing on beer on Giammona Drive in downtown Walnut Creek, and right around the corner is Residual Sugar Wine Bar on Locust St. This bar opened in May, 2010 and has been getting rave reviews, including winning the 2011 best wine bar award from Diablo Magazine.
The bar is long and narrow with one wall stocked to the brim with wine bottles, as can be seen in this photo.
Residual Sugar features some of the world’s best wines with over 35 available by the glass. Residual Sugar is able to offer this wide selection thanks to its unique 32 Tap Cruvinet System, enabling wines to be opened while maintaining their freshness and flavor.
Additionally, Residual Sugar makes its entire 800+ item wine list available by the glass, provided that the party orders at least two glasses of that wine. This unique aspect of Residual Sugar’s wine program allows customers to have the opportunity to taste a wider selection of wines, many of them limited production. All partial bottles are added to a blackboard behind the bar and sold by the glass.
According to owner Jim Telford the clientele ranges from twenty-somethings to an older Lesher Center crowd and they aim to educate people about wine without pretension. Has anyone been here?