What is Jamie’s Bottle Shop?
Most of Old Town’s wine rooms pour one producer. Jamie’s Bottle Shop pours the world, and sells it to you by the bottle on the way out.
It opened on March 28, 2025, at the west end of the Main Street arts district, and it is three businesses in one room: a retail wine shop, a wine bar and a small French bistro kitchen. The owners are Jamie Hormel, who owns Phoenix’s Wrigley Mansion, and her longtime friend and business partner Jack Borenstein. Their idea came from travel. “We would visit all of these amazing wine stores and realized there was nothing in Arizona comparable to what we were seeing in LA, New York and Paris,” Borenstein told Phoenix New Times at the opening.
The room, about 2,300 square feet designed by Scottsdale’s Mendil + Meyer Design Studio, is natural wood, gold and green, with custom floor-to-ceiling shelves holding more than 700 labels and around 5,000 bottles. Prices run from $15 to $15,000. The serious bottles, Château Pétrus and Château Lafite Rothschild among them, live in a locked, temperature- and humidity-controlled Reserve Room; a separate Champagne Room hosts classes and tastings. Thirty to forty wines are open by the glass at any time.
The pitch is that all of this should feel approachable. Hormel said that if the concept was going to carry her name, it had to be a place to explore wine “without the pretension,” and both owners talk about the days when they could not pronounce half of what they were drinking. The result is the rare wine bar in Scottsdale where a $15 bottle and a $1,500 one share a shelf and nobody blinks.
How to drink here
Shop, then sit. The best way to use Jamie’s is as a store with tables. Browse the shelves, ask the staff to steer you, and drink your bottle at one of the tasting tables or at the window bar that looks onto Main Street. Shelf prices make a bottle better value than a run of glasses, and anything you love can go home with you.
Or go by the glass. The by-the-glass list is long enough, 30 to 40 options, to build your own flight. At opening it ran from an $11 pour of Washington bubbles to a glass of Krug, and the list rotates.
Eat from the bistro side. The kitchen does a Parisian bistro-style menu: a pressed ham and cheese on artisan bread, seasonal market salads, shareables, and charcuterie boards built from Italian and French meats and cheeses sliced to order, with jams and pickled vegetables. It is enough for a light dinner, and boards can be packed to go.
Book the classes. The Champagne Room runs tastings and wine-education classes led by the in-house sommelier, bookable through the shop’s events page and Resy. The wine club has three tiers, from an introductory monthly red-and-white to a three-bottle selection for more experienced drinkers.
Time it. Jamie’s is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. Weekday afternoons are quiet; ArtWalk Thursdays bring gallery traffic. For dinner after, The House Brasserie and Pizzeria Virtù are a short walk west, and for dessert, Růže Cake House is next door at Suite 100.
A city wine shop on a Western art street
For most of its history, Old Town’s relationship with wine ran through restaurants and, later, tasting rooms. Kazimierz, the hidden wine cave behind Cowboy Ciao, taught Scottsdale to drink adventurously from 2003 until it closed in 2018. FnB built the most important Arizona wine list anywhere on Craftsman Court. And from the 2010s on, the state’s wineries opened tasting rooms within a few blocks of one another, from Carlson Creek on Marshall Way to Aridus down the street on Main. What the neighborhood lacked was a big-city wine shop: a store deep enough to browse for an hour, with a bar attached.
Jamie’s filled that gap with a name already attached to Phoenix history. Hormel’s other property, the Wrigley Mansion, is the hilltop estate built for the Wrigley chewing-gum family above the Arizona Biltmore around 1930, now a restaurant and event venue. Bringing that owner to a storefront at the quiet west end of Main Street, next to a cake shop and across from galleries of Western bronzes, was an unexpected move, and it changed the street’s evening a little. The arts district has always emptied out after the galleries close; a wine shop open until nine with a window bar gives it a reason to stay lit.
The press caught on quickly. Within months of opening, Phoenix New Times listed the shop’s club among the Valley’s best wine clubs, and in November 2025 put Jamie’s on its Top 100 Bars list as a high-end wine bar.
The honest assessment: Jamie’s is a luxury business, the reserve shelf is for collectors, and a casual glass can add up. But the depth of the shelves, the sliced-to-order boards and a staff paid to make wine less intimidating make it the best place in Old Town to drink outside Arizona, and the best place on Main Street to buy a bottle to take back to the hotel.