For many, a wine bar has an exhausting aftertaste. Not everyone can do something with tobacco and leather as a flavor, with locations and growing areas. Sometimes you just want a nice drinking wine on the table. But not everyone dares to ask exactly what it is, because at the next table, for example, people are talking shop at the same time about the full body and the mineral finish. Would you rather just go for a beer?
Fortunately, there are now one or two wine bars that refrain from elitist posturing. Which puts the fun of wine in the foreground. The “Dizzy Daisy” is such a bar, for example.
Two casual and friendly bartenders stand behind the counter. There is a warm atmosphere: candles are burning on the tables, sprigs of lavender are in a small bottle. The decoration is subtle, “Let’s get dizzy!” is written on the letterboard on the wall. Patterned tiled floor, light wooden tables, a small terracotta table. Small, simple and cosy.
The range of dishes is also simple, it is written on the blackboard at the counter: canned sardines or tuna cream in a glass with baguette (10.90/7.90 euros) or a cheese plate (17.50 euros). A small, fine basis can be laid with it, so that you can then concentrate entirely on the map.
It’s kept pleasantly short. A few whites, in the glass or in the bottle, reds, rosés, seccos. The 0.1 glass costs between 4 and 6.40 euros, bottles 28 to 49 euros. Many bio-dynamic, some natural wines. Those who are curious will definitely find something unconventional, “but we only have wines on the menu that can be drunk all evening, nothing too sophisticated,” says operator and winemaker Nelly Fischer. Most come from Germany, Austria and South Tyrol. They are described in detail: The Blanc de Pinot Noir from the Hauck winery in Rheinhessen, for example, is a “very slightly salmon-colored white wine made from gently pressed Pinot Noir grapes. Aromas of apple, banana and red currant” (4.50 for 0.1).
The food is written on a small blackboard, and two young waitresses serve the guests.
(Photo: Stephan Rumpf)
Exterior view of the Dizzy Daisy on Thalkirchner Strasse. When the weather is nice, the shop windows can be opened.
(Photo: Stephan Rumpf)
Straightforward wines and a few bites. The Dizzy Daisy is not as elitist as other wine bars.
(Photo: Stephan Rumpf)
The menu also includes their own “Dizzy Daisy” wines, a rosé, a white wine cuvée, a Sauvignon Blanc and a Secco. For this, Nelly Fischer works together with the winemaker Jana Hauck. A “Daisy Sprizz” (7.50) is mixed with the white wine cuvée and raspberry kombucha, the “Italicus Spritz” (8.50) made of Italicus and Prosecco, on the bottom of which are round olives, tastes nice and tart a slightly sweet finish. In general, the “Italicus” in its elegant, ice-blue ribbed bottle has what it takes to become the aperitif spirit of the summer. A bergamot liqueur made from carefully selected ingredients such as Calabrian bergamot, Sicilian cedar and Roman chamomile.
And so the “Dizzy Daisy” slowly fills up over the course of the evening with mainly young guests who could just as easily be found in the trendy bars around it; Groups, girlfriends, couples, olive bowls and wine glasses in front of them.
When the weather is nice, the shop windows are pushed open and a few tables are placed in front of the restaurant, and you can also go down to the cellar: At the moment only for private celebrations, but later wine tastings could take place there, for example.
Dizzy DaisyThalkirchner Straße 10, 80337 Munich, Wednesday and Thursday 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday 6 p.m. to 1 a.m., 089/23021645, [email protected]