Welcome to Barrique, a cavernous wine-barrel wine bar putting the best of winery tasting rooms, cellars and bars together into one brick-walled, barrel-stacked den, open now in Jackson Square.

Opened by owner Jim Howell, the bar is capitalizing on the philosophy of the bulk bin (without the hippy stigma) and taking out the middle man. Instead of paying for the bottling and pretty labels—which is where a lot of your wine dollars go—the new Jackson Square wine bar is serving up wines straight from the barrel.