Rejoice Pittsburgh wine lovers! Your day in the spotlight is finally here with all of the new wine attractions popping up throughout the Steel City!

First on our list of favorites is the new restaurant and wine bar, Senti.

Located on Butler Street near the Strip District, the new restaurant features an enomatic wine dispenser, which allows customers to taste high-end wines by the pour.

“We mainly have high-end Italian wines,” said owner Franco Braccia. “This wine dispenser is a new approach to high-end wines. Most bottles cost $100 to $200, and with this, we can offer those same high-quality wines at a fraction of the price. It gives the exposure of higher-end wines to anyone who likes wine.”

Customers are able to serve themselves at the wine bar through a prepaid gift card that allows them to pay for the glass of wine as they go. Wine is dispensed at a one, three or five ounce interval.

“You don’t have to wait for a server to come around for you to get your glass of wine,” said owner Annette Ishida.

Braccia added that the wine gift card is great option when customers are doing dinner with friends.

“You can get the wine anytime you like it,” he said.

The wine is preserved with argon gas as it is released through the dispenser. This prevents it from becoming altered by oxygen, allowing the wine to last for a longer period of time.

Senti also offers additional wines by the glass and bottles that are not in the enomatic wine dispenser.

Next on the list is the new Waterworks Giant Eagle Market District, which features a one-of-a-kind wine bar experience.

“We offer eight different wines to our customers in either a one ounce, three ounce or five ounce pour,” said Keith Smith, a bartender at the Market District Giant Eagle. “We have a new age machine that has the wine on tap, and it gives you the perfect pour. We also have a wine flight where you can sample three different 1.5 ounces of wine.”

The bar and restaurant offer four red wines and four white wines for guests to choose from, including a 2011 Cakebread Cabernet Sauvignon and a 2013 Sterling Chardonnay.

Another Pittsburgh favorite of ours is Dreadnought Wine, a gourmet wine company based in the city that offers custom tastings (for personal or corporate events) as well as classes.

The company was opened in 1980 by Shawn Beck and Bob Gonze, with the mission to “bring new and exciting specialty and gourmet wines to Pittsburgh.” Beck and Gonze wanted to offer the public wine tastings and knowledgeable advice.

To see their schedule of events for class times or to book your own private wine tasting at Dreadnought Wines, check out the calendar of events. Dreadnought also recently moved to Lawrenceville from the Strip District, so make sure to visit its new home across from the former Pittsburgh Brewing Company.

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