After visiting for a summer they committed to move there when she finished school. The couple met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as Carver, an Orcas Island native, attended MIT and Crum, worked in the restaurant industry. Recent offerings include bottles like the Catalonian pét-nat Avinyó 2017 Petillant Vi D’Agulla, Catherine & Pierre Breton 2012 Bourgueil Clos Sénéchal and Francesco Cirelli 2017 Rosato. Their biggest category is “Fizzy Lifting Drinks,” which encompasses Crémant de Loire, Basque cider, Txakoli, and everything from “farmer fizz” to grower Champagne. “95% of our winemakers are also farmers, people really attuned to the grape, taking it all the way to the bottle,” says Carver, The next criteria is whether a wine is refreshing. The pair’s top priority with inventory is that the producer practices sustainable agriculture. The Pioneering Family-Run Wineries of Washington They also want to give visitors a taste of how the locals live and entertain, says Crum. They seek to pair their bottles with the adventure customers will go on, whether it’s a picnic of freshly shucked oysters at Buck Bay Shellfish Farm or a “chuggable” bottle of sparkling rosé to take swimming. The remote location, forested landscape and slow pace of life stand in contrast with The Bodega’s exciting bottle list and knowledgeable owners.Ĭarver says that they try to curate an experience for their customers. Image courtesy of Champagne Champagne Behind the bodega’s selection It’s a popular destination for city dwellers from Seattle, a trip that encompasses an 80-mile drive north and a one-hour ferry ride. That number increases vastly on summer weekends when visitors sweep over Orcas, the largest of the San Juan Islands. Fifteen minutes up the hill is Eastsound, the population hub for the island of about 5,000 people. The shop, perched in the window of an old ice cream store, sits a few steps from the island’s only ferry dock. “ dive-bar format with a killer selection,” says Carver. The shop’s name refers to both the original meaning of bodega, the Spanish word for wine cellar, and its colloquial definition as a corner store.
The pair opened their shop, The Bodega at Champagne Champagne, during the summer of 2017 to bring in money as they remodeled an adjacent space into the wine bar Champagne Champagne, which debuted in February 2018. “People thought we were contractors who knew about wine,” says her fiancé, Brian Crum.
Amelia Carver sold her first bottle of wine from her harborside shop on Orcas Island, Washington, while covered in construction dust, power tool in hand.
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