LPO
Matt Okine’s neighbourhood wine store and bar in an old post office.
LPO Wine Store
No cuisine$$
Comedian and actor Matt Okine is one of the owners of LPO. Partnering with him is Dan Wilson, a seasoned chef who, pre-pandemic, ran kitchens and opened his own venue, Dandy, in London. LPO is short for “Local Post Office” after Okine and his wife, Belinda Rabe, found an old post office for rent on Windmill Street.
Inside, it’s ply walls, timber shelves for the 250-ish vintages now on display, polished concrete floors, and potted plants to add a bucolic touch. In the middle of the space, there’s a communal table designed to let guests interact with each other.
The focus with the wine is on minimum intervention drops with a roughly 60-40 split between international and Australian producers, Wilson leaning on deep connections both in Australia and abroad to source some heady drops. LPO’s licence means there’s a rotating selection of four white wines and four reds by the glass. And there’s a focus on keeping things affordable, with some bottles going for less than $20.
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Matt Shea is Food and Culture Editor at Brisbane Times. He is a former editor and editor-at-large at Broadsheet Brisbane, and has written for Escape, Qantas Magazine, the Guardian, Jetstar Magazine and SilverKris, among many others.