Corkage: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

You don’t need to be a wine expert to enjoy well-chosen bottles by the glass at this friendly wine bar with food

Corkage, 132a Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BG (01225 422 577). Meal for two, including service and wine (lots of it): £60-£100

Halfway through our meal at Corkage in Bath, Marty Grant, the man who handles the wine side of the business, sat down next to us and presented a bottle. He’s a bright-eyed chap with a shaggy explosion of red hair and a neat line in patter. He had first tasted this red wine, a Château de la Tuilerie, when he was in his early 20s, he said. He was recuperating in Nîmes from a back injury incurred while trying to earn a living as a self-taught acrobat.