Square Deal Wine Co

In-house and artisan wines stir buzz at this wine shop fave.

by Ashley Gartland

Inside this cool, cavernous, cement-floored wine shop there aren’t racks of wine or even shelved bottles for the West Hills clientele to peruse. Rather, the staff creates a more open design by displaying retail wines in crates clustered together on the floor. Above each grouping of crates, large lettered signs mark the regions the staff culls the collection from. When asked, these attentive afficionados will share tasting notes and winery histories verbally; there’s no relying on printed tasting notes to make a purchase here - like the shelves, they don’t exist.