How it all started

Owners Ryan Fouche and Aaron Schaub of Seminole Heights’ Jug + Bottle sit next to La Sétima’s third owner Coral Carrasquillo, who will boast the title of general manager when the wine bar opens next week.
She’s known Fouche and Schaub for a few years now through Tampa’s craft beer scene, but really started building a relationship with them during 2020’s pandemic, the same time that her love and passion for natural wine really grew.
She worked at Tampa’s Independent Bar & Cafe before COVID, but started picking up shifts at Jug + Bottle for extra cash.
“I stayed at Jug + Bottle after the pandemic because I got to the point where I felt comfortable being the wine buyer there.” Carrasquillo tells CL. “I started their monthly wine club, too.”
It was then that the idea for a natural wine bar first came into fruition. But what initially started as a dive bar-like space evolved into a highly-curated lounge.The space came before the idea, in a way, as the trio found the future La Sétima before all of the business details were established. Carrasquillo says that they had their eyes on Tampa Heights and Seminole Heights, wanting to “focus on neighborhoods that we’re familiar with and the community that we’re already in.”

An Excerpt from Kyla Fields’ CL article Nov 14, 2022: