Sauvage Wine Bar and Shop

"This 100-square-foot wine shop is more bottle shop, less bar. But it is home to the most fascinating wine and wine-adjacent selections in town, and customers can drink bottles in Sauvage or in the outdoor food hall it calls home. Chris Lingua, proprietor and the man behind the shop’s varied tunes, sources low-intervention wines in the orbit of natural, though he hesitates to use that zeitgeist-y word. He sources Swedish ciders made from pear and apple juice, and Italian Grillo partly fermented in clay vessels, like the ancient Romans did. The bottle selection, displayed by price on one shop wall, changes frequently." - Nikki Buchanan, Chris Malloy

"Sauvage has quickly become a darling of the Phoenix wine scene — and for good reason. Housed in the more than 100-year-old Helen Anderson House off McDowell, Sauvage’s interior has visitors loving its light-filled nooks and crannies, with an aesthetic somewhere between a grandma’s cottage and a chic plant shop. Sauvage does a remarkable job of making both local Arizona wines and hard-to-find labels accessible and enjoyable to local audiences. They also frequently hosts food pop-ups and DJ events throughout the week." - Mcconnell Quinn

"A few years ago, finding a natural wine bar in Phoenix was quite the challenge, let alone one selling local natural wine. Then came Sauvage. From its modest origins as a small natural wine stand in the downtown Phoenix hotspot, The Churchill, Sauvage expanded to its own brick-and-mortar location in 2023 and hasn’t looked back since. The shop found its home in the hundred-year-old Helen Anderson house off McDowell Road, restoring it to its English cottage roots. While Sauvage still offers a plethora of retail wines for purchase, it has upgraded to a selection of over 200 wines available for enjoyment on-site, corked to go, or by the glass, accompanied by a menu of small bites. Sauvage is always bustling with events, including rotating chef specials and DJ performances throughout the week." - Mcconnell Quinn, Nikki Buchanan