In the spring of 2018, the "stroller" took a break, stepping away from Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building .
Hiroshi Tsubouchi, who says he drinks wine almost every day, visited the Vintage Cellar in the Grand Cave on the first basement floor of the Shinjuku Main Store. "I often come to the wine section, but I didn't know there was such a secret place in the back," he said, as he emerged from an 8-meter-long tunnel into what was a wine lover's paradise!

Isetan's Grand Cave has a wide selection of products.

"At soba restaurants, I drink sake, and at eel restaurants, I drink either sake or wine. When it comes to sake, I prefer it warm. I don't like highly polished sake like ginjo; I prefer the old-fashioned sake that gets a bit sharp if you warm it too much. As for wine, I'm currently drinking wines from the northern Italian regions, like Piedmont and Tuscany, and I feel like I'm starting to understand them a little better by focusing on specific areas," says Tsubouchi. He praises the Grand Cave on the first basement floor of the main building, which has a selection of wines organized by region in Italy, making it easy to shop.


Grand Cave boasts five full-time sommeliers and offers approximately 1,700 types of wine and 300 types of spirits. Guided by sommelier Miho Horiuchi, we stepped into the vintage cellar where "100 years' worth" of vintage wines are stored...

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