The Bottle Club

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 The Bottle Club

A Tradition as Old as Taste Itself

The origins of The Bottle Club can be traced—albeit through foggy decanters and ink-stained guestbooks—to Mayfair, London, 1871, where a small group of free thinkers, bon-vivants, and botanically-minded tipplers began gathering beneath the gaslit chandeliers of The Mercury Salon, an unregistered but impossibly elegant parlor tucked behind a reputable tailor and an utterly disreputable absinthe importer.

At the helm of this distinguished circle stood a curious gentleman known only as Marc Mercury—a man of questionable age, impeccable taste, and rumored ties to both the Royal Society of Chemistry and an underground port club in Porto. Legend holds that Mercury, in a fit of mild rebellion after being asked to bring a salad to a picnic hosted by Queen Victoria’s third cousin, declared:

“No great story ever began with someone eating a salad.”

Thus, The Bottle Club was born.