Bar is sparkling again - Trippets Wine and Champagne Bar

By Lesley Draper

CALL it snobbery, intuition or just plain prejudice but the idea of opening a champagne bar in a scruffy Sheffield back street just

doesn't sound like a humdinger of a business idea to me. However, the brains behind the revamped Trippets wine and champagne bar are two of the best-known names in the business.

"It might not seem like the obvious place but we're only 300 yards from the Town Hall, the Peace Gardens and All Bar One," says celebrated wine merchant John Mitchell, one half of the partnership. The other is his good friend Jonnie Higginbottom, who runs West 10 wine bar in salubrious Ranmoor....