The Wine Lady

The Wine Lady is a boutique wine shop at 234 Brevard Avenue in Historic Cocoa Village, opened in 2017 by Kim Bachand after a career in the wine industry. The shop describes itself as offering carefully curated wines sold by the bottle alongside an intimate space where visitors can also order wines by the glass, a hybrid retail and tasting model built around bottles sourced from around the world, from bold reds to crisp whites and sparkling wines.

Every Thursday evening from 4 to 7, the shop hosts an interactive wine tasting, giving regulars and first time visitors a structured way to sample a rotating selection before committing to a bottle to take home. That weekly rhythm has become part of how the shop operates day to day, staff on hand to help customers work through a curated list rather than browsing a big box wine aisle alone. For a small city like Cocoa, having an independent, owner run wine shop with a genuine tasting program is somewhat unusual, and it reflects the specialty retail character that Historic Cocoa Village has built over the years rather than a strip mall liquor store approach.

Brevard Avenue, where the shop sits, runs through the center of the historic district, within a short walk of the village’s jewelers, boutiques, and the Cocoa Village Playhouse. The shop is registered as pet friendly with the Historic Cocoa Village Main Street organization, so visitors exploring downtown Cocoa with a dog are welcome inside. The wider district hosts more than fifty events across the calendar year, and a wine shop with weekly tastings is well positioned to draw steady evening traffic even outside of those larger festivals.

The Wine Lady can be reached at 321-806-4958 or by email at Kim@thewineladycocoa.com, and the business maintains its own website along with Facebook and Instagram accounts where the shop posts details on upcoming tastings and new arrivals. Its founding in 2017 and continued operation under its original owner make it one of the more established specialty retailers to open in the village in recent years, and its listing in the city’s official Historic Cocoa Village Main Street directory confirms its status as an independently owned business rather than part of a chain.

A shop of this size depends on the owner’s own palate and relationships with distributors to build a list worth returning to, which is part of why a Thursday tasting works so well as a recurring draw. For anyone picking up a bottle before dinner at one of the village’s restaurants, or looking to build out a home collection with something more considered than a supermarket aisle, The Wine Lady fills a role that few other shops in Brevard County attempt at this scale.