Nine hundred bottles, none of them boring.

Lantern Street, in the old bank

Ines Marchetti spent eleven years running restaurant wine lists where a glass of something great cost what a bottle should. In 2021 she bought the Lantern Street Savings and Loan, shelved the teller line, and started pouring on Fridays.

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Tall wooden wine shelves along the former teller line, with the marble counter in front
The main floor, formerly the teller lineOpen Tuesday to Sunday
This week

Six bottles we keep
opening ourselves.

The picks change every Monday. Everything here is under fifty dollars, and every one of them is open on the counter Friday so you can taste before you commit.

No. 01

Casa Ferrante Rosso di Collina 2023

Sangiovese · Tuscany

Sangiovese with the corners sanded off. Cherry, a little dust, no oak to speak of. Weeknight pasta, or no pasta at all.

$19
No. 02Staff pick

Haldenhof Riesling Trocken 2022

Riesling · Mosel

Bone dry, wet slate and green apple, eleven and a half percent. The bottle that converts people who say they don't like Riesling.

$24
No. 03

Domaine Pellerin Chinon Les Ronces 2021

Cabernet Franc · Loire

Raspberry and pencil shavings, tannin like a good handshake. Twenty minutes in the fridge, then anything with herbs on it.

$28
No. 04

Bodega Trasluz Garnacha Vieja 2022

Garnacha · Aragon

Seventy-year-old vines, concrete tanks, all fruit. The house red in at least four staff members' houses, which is not a coincidence.

$17
No. 05

Cantina Orsolini Bianco Frizzante 2023

Malvasia · Emilia

Cloudy, gently fizzy, a bit wild in the best way. Open it outside, with something salty, before anyone has finished saying hello.

$26
No. 06Staff pick

Chateau Marlenne 2016

Cabernet blend · Medoc

Proper Bordeaux with a decade on it. Cedar, cassis, a Sunday roast in the oven. Give it an hour in a decanter. We would say that.

$42
The club

Two or four bottles a month, chosen for you, explained on a card.

Ines picks from the nine hundred. You get bottles you would not have found on your own, a note on each that says what it is and what to open it with, and a standing excuse to come in.

Pick up from the first Friday of the month, or we deliver. Skip any month by replying to the email. Cancel the same way. There is no phone tree.

Two bottles $55 per month
  • One red and one white or sparkling, both a little under the radar
  • A card for each: what it is, why we chose it, what to open it with
  • 10% off everything in the shop, all month
  • Friday tastings, free
Join at $55
Four bottles $105 per month
  • Everything in the two-bottle club, doubled
  • One of the four comes from the vault: older, rarer, not on the floor
  • 15% off in the shop, and first call on anything we only get six of
  • Free delivery, on the club box and on everything else
Join at $105
Pickup or delivery Skip any month Cancel by email
Friday tastings

Five to seven, every Friday.
Six wines, one idea.

Walk in, no ticket. The price covers six pours and whatever Ines feels like saying about them. Club members taste free, and anything from the flight is 10% off that night.

  • 11Sept · Fri Chilled redsSix reds that want the fridge. Gamay, Frappato, Trousseau, and a Zweigelt we argued about. $15
  • 18Sept · Fri Riesling, dry to sweetOne grape, six answers, from bone dry to a dessert wine that is not sticky. $15
  • 25Sept · Fri North Rhone against SouthSyrah on one side, Grenache on the other. Five rounds, one winner, you decide. $20
  • 2Oct · Fri Bubbles that are not ChampagneCremant, Franciacorta, cava, pet-nat, and one Champagne poured blind to see who can tell. $20
Glasses being poured at the tasting table, hands and bottles only

The tasting table is the old branch manager's desk. Twelve stools, first come. If you want a seat on a rainy Friday, come at five.

Delivery

Same day, five miles, in a bag you can carry.

Order by three and it is at your door by seven. Call or text the shop with what you want, or just say "two whites for a fish dinner" and let us sort it. Forty-dollar minimum, six-dollar fee, free over seventy-five, and always free for the club.

Someone over 21 has to answer the door. We bring a card reader, so nobody has to find cash.

Call or text (555) 555-0147 See the delivery zone
5miFrom the shop door
3pmSame-day cutoff
$40Minimum order
The shelves

Organized by mood, not by map.

Nobody walks in wanting "the Loire." They walk in wanting something for Tuesday, or for a birthday, or to put away for a while. So the shelves are arranged around the question you actually have, and the region is on the tag where it belongs.

  • Tuesday

    The biggest wall. Two hundred bottles between fourteen and twenty-five dollars that are good enough to notice and cheap enough not to. Refilled Monday morning, argued over Monday afternoon.

  • Someone's coming over

    Bottles with a story you can tell at the table. Thirty to sixty dollars, sorted by what you are cooking: oysters at the left end, short ribs at the right.

  • Put it away

    The vault, literally. The old safe holds a few hundred bottles that improve with patience, at cellar temperature, behind a door that weighs four tons. Ask and we will open it.

Three wine bottles on the marble counter with a corkscrew, labels turned away
The old bank vault door, now the entrance to the cellar
Ines Marchetti in a linen shirt, holding a glass of red wine
The owner

Ines Marchetti, sommelier, formerly of the forty-page list.

Ines ran the floor at two restaurants you have heard of and the wine program at a third that had more Burgundy than sense. She loved the wine and stopped loving the markup. Decant is the shop she wanted to walk into on a day off: nine hundred bottles, most under thirty dollars, every one of them something she would pour for a friend, and a person behind the counter who will tell you the truth about the expensive one.

She still tastes every bottle before it goes on the shelf. Yes, all of them. It is a slower way to run a wine shop and the only way she knows.

Ines

A wine list is a test. A wine shop should be a conversation.

Ines Marchetti, owner

Come in thirsty.

Address

14 Lantern Street
Port Ellery
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The building with the columns. Parking behind, through the old drive-through lane.

Hours
  • Tue to Thu11 to 7
  • Friday11 to 8, tasting 5 to 7
  • Saturday10 to 8
  • Sunday12 to 5
  • MondayClosed
Reach us

Call or text (555) 555-0147
or write to hello@decant.example

Looking for a specific bottle? Send a photo of the label. We will either have it or know who does.

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