Get to know us
The original Taste of Vino was the first 'true' wine bar in Hinsdale; it has gourmet cheeses and other delicacies to nibble. The shop focuses its attention on an ambitious selection of wines by the glass and half-glass as well as an interesting collection of international beers. Food selections available to go and brought over fresh daily from the restaurant.
Tanya Hart's Taste of Vino a truly extraordinary place to eat, drink and buy wine.
The Taste of Vino shops are family owned; they are a specialty wine shop and wine bar that opened in September 2003. Expanding the brand, while expanding locations, owner Tanya Hart has a reputation for being the best in wine and food and offering the best in food and wine knowledge. That's why her customers return over and over again.
Taste of Vino breaks boundaries on how to think and drink wine and enhances the ideal of buying fine wine. Taste of Vino is all about value, a great bottle of wine for a great price, without breaking the bank!
About The Store
Taste of Vino is set up by style. Customers don't always know the wine they want, but they know the style they like it in. To make choosing wine simple, the store is arranged by "Big, bold & Rich - "Smooth, Luscious, Juicy" – "Light, fresh & Fruity" – "Bubbles" – "Sticky & Sweet".
"We are all about value" says Hart, "we believe everyone should get a great glass or bottle of wine and not pay restaurant prices for it". TOV cultivated the slogan "Retail Plus" as a way to drink good wine affordably. "You can pick any bottle off the shelf to open and drink in the shop paying the retail price, plus $12 corkage," says Hart. That's a great deal! Additionally "I have customers who come up and tell me they are "big, bold and rich”, says Hart. “They identify themselves with a certain style".
About Tanya Hart
Born in the UK, Tanya grew up in a family of wine and food. Never thinking wine would be a career Tanya's passion was writing, her major Journalism. In 1982, while freelance writing in LA, Tanya stumbled into the wine business and went to work for two leading wineries managing their distribution to fine restaurants and retailers in Los Angeles. Tanya was married in 1993 and moved with her husband to Northern California, where she opened up her own wholesale wine company selling small boutique wineries to top restaurants and retailers in the Bay Area. Over the last twenty-four years, Tanya has cultivated many relationships all over the world, has accumulated a wealth of wine information, and fine-tuned a worthy palate. With a reputation and respect among her piers as one of the more knowledgeable wine authorities, Tanya continues to grow with her current business here in Illinois.
Tanya Hart's Taste of Vino was recently named by Chicago Magazine as 'Best Local Wine Shop 2007, and continues to be one of the more innovative and progressive wine shops in the country. Tanya can be seen on both NBC-5 and ABC-7 as a local wine expert and was recently quoted in Women's Entrepreneur Magazine.
Tanya lives in Western Springs with her husband Shep, her two children and lab-mix Emm