His mother couldn't drink wine out in the open. Now he runs this Chicago wine bar in her memory.
CHICAGO - At times in her life, Tulah had to sip her wine from a coffee cup, in case the police came. But at home, Enoch Shully remembers his mother leaving the bottle out in the open on the kitchen table.
That's where it was when Shully, who owns and operates the West Loop's Bin 36, first tasted wine.
Recently, Shully recalled that one night as a boy, after his parents went to bed, he sneaked down to the kitchen for a late-night snack and saw the wine. At 7 years old, he knew it only as his mother Tulah's drink. He drank half the bottle.
"I thought it was the most disgusting thing ever," he said while sitting on a bar stool of Bin 36, which he has owned since 2014.
