Description: Smash is a wine bar and eatery that occupies the
ground-level retail space of a residential building in Wallingford.
Let’s play a game!: Each of the next three sections has three
wine-tasting terms actually used by sommeliers and one fictional term.
Can you spot the fake?
Wine-flavor nuances: Buttery, salami sandwich, bubble gum,
concrete.
Spoiled-wine characteristics: Thrift-store wig, Band-Aids,
sweaty saddle, kerosene.
Wine-body descriptors: Angular, chewy, nervous, pointy.
Phony answers: Salami sandwich, thrift-store wig, pointy.
Happy hours: Mon–Fri 5–6:30 pm, Sun 5–10
pm.
Happy-hour drink specials: $3.75 bottles of beer, an
assortment of $5.95 treats (such as select wine, sangria, and well
drinks), and $6 specialty martinis (like the Chocolate Manhattan).
Happy-hour food specials: $5.95 duck and shiitake spring
rolls, $8.95 smoked-mozzarella ravioli with pink vodka tomato sauce,
and more.
