Sommelier Chris Goodwin left restaurant management after two decades in hospitality to open this boutique bottle shop in a small shopping village on Sydney's North Shore. He tastes sixty to eighty wines a week before anything reaches the shelf, favouring small, family-run producers over the mass-market labels that dominate big-box liquor chains, and keeps notes on regular customers' tastes to steer new discoveries toward them. The range runs to roughly 1,300 wines, 200 beers and 100 spirits, weighted toward Australian boutique labels and imports chosen for terroir and craftsmanship rather than name recognition. Goodwin is candid about the pressure smaller producers face once they build a following — the buy-out offers that can trade quality for scale. At Shop 7, 50 Koola Avenue in East Killara, that stance plays out shelf by shelf, with staff who talk through a pairing rather than just ring up a sale. Open seven days.