Grape expectations.

The Wine Company, Dempsey Road, Singapore is a lovely place for a drink: tasteful, airy, tropical and lush, in a beautifully decorated colonial-era building surrounded by gorgeous, rampant greenery. (The prices of wine are incredibly good, too; particularly for someone coming from Bangkok where wine is taxed, taxed and taxed again.) I always said that Singapore needed a whole raft of places like this. There’s something about The Wine Company that makes me kick myself that I never put my money where my mouth is and opened something like this myself.