Disco lights and grower champs: Amsterdam's natural wine bars

Hannah bids a not quite tearful goodbye to Amsterdam, with a round up of its burgeoning natural wine bar scene.

Things are not the way they used to be when I moved to Amsterdam seven years ago. There are more tourists and less squats, more Nutella shops than used bookstores, and what were once mobility vehicles for the infirm are now playthings for the teenage daughters of yuppie families who would rather not get their hair ruffled by the helmet they'd have to wear if they had to drive a scooter like they did in the old days. But it’s not all bad. Nowadays when we tell winemakers where we live and they ask whether that's a part of Belgium (because that's where they're sending their wine) we're not so embarrassed. Now you can actually drink natural wines in places other than restaurants BAK and Choux in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We even have some exclusively natural wine bars! Five, to be precise, or maybe only four if you listen to the owners of the one which they insist is not a 'natural wine bar' but a bar with natural wines. But I'm not listening, sorry guys. People like lists of fives.

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