The wine list is too rich for its own good.
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The wine list is categorized according to texture and flavor.
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"I don't recognize anything on this wine list," he said.
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Mr. Campanale's wine list is Italian, but not exclusively so.
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Initially, the restaurant paired Vietnamese food with an extensive wine list.
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The wine list reflects a similar split between the two regions.
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The wine list features lesser-known varietals and interesting older vintages.
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Those blaufränkisches and rkatsitelis on your wine list aren't going away.
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The wine list includes my favorite pinot grigio, from Livio Felluga.
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The cannabis menu reminded me a lot of a wine list.
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Cocktails and the full wine list, emphasizing natural wines, are available now.
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Eye the wine list, but order the briny, sherry-based Castaway cocktail.
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Grapes from Italy dominate the wine list, with California in second place.
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I think it's the "less is more" philosophy with my wine list.
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"Wine list prices are crazy right now," Mr. Solomon told Bloomberg Pursuits.
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You can enjoy signature cocktails, premium spirits, and a curated wine list.
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Its wine list also includes Franzia red wine and Franzia white wine.
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The wine list focuses on Spain and France, as do the cocktails.
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The menu changes weekly, and the wine list includes selections from Georgian vineyards.
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Simone also features an elevated wine list and plenty of delicious craft cocktails.
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The restaurant also has the best wine list, according to the Arkansas Times.
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That's the best way to get comfortable with the wine list in general.
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I looked at the wine list later and realized the bottle cost €150.
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The wine list features Nero d'Avola from small producers like Sicily's Azienda Gulfi.
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The restaurant also has a wine list and a number of local beers.
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The wine list is predominantly French, with selections from organically and biodynamically farmed vineyards.
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When we started, we had a pretty basic wine list and I hated it.
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My suggestion: if you see a 'Brutal!!!' wine on a wine list, order it.
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Your go-to, "second cheapest on the wine list" rule doesn't really apply here.
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That's also a nice way of saying the wine list could be more interesting.
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There is a reasonably big wine list compiled by Natascha Patterer, the beverage manager.
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There's no pretence, no wine list, and no simulation of an "on trend" experience.
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Mr. Reynolds's wine list is mostly French and Italian: 137 Kenmare Street (Mulberry Street), pasqualejones.com.
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The wine list is eclectic: 125 East Seventh Street (Avenue A), 212-777-0855, ruffiannyc.com.
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The Pour It's the rare wine list that can be all things to all people.
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As one perused the wine list, I asked him to choose a bottle under $100.
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The wine list at BLT Prime in Trump's DC hotel is full of European vintages.
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At some point a captain in a crisply tailored suit will deposit the wine list.
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The wine list is full of the amenably drinkable bottles you want with this food.
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A wine list by John Slover emphasizes whites, and is long on Champagnes and Burgundies.
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The wine list at Flora Bar is about as exhaustive as any artist's career retrospective.
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The wine list spins around the region offering bottles from Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia.
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The greatest emphasis is on the wine list, all of it billed as "natural" or organic.
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The wine list tilts decidedly toward reds: 764 10th Avenue (52nd Street), 212-586-0888, decimonyc.com.
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The all-Spanish wine list is rich with sherries and that Spanish predilection, gin and tonics.
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Ms. Lepeltier has expanded her wine list: (Wednesday): 221 West 7322th Street, 2210-210-222, rougetomatechelsea.com.
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A few minutes later, the flight attendant brought over a wine list and a dinner menu ...
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This place has a sprawling wine list, so it's extremely overwhelming for people to look at.
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Oenophiles will appreciate the impressive wine list and free daily tours of the sprawling wine cellar.
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But while the wine list sails off into uncharted territory, the menu sticks closer to home.
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Opposite is the new Ritz Bar, bistro-style with food all day and a deep wine list.
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First, in a fine Indian restaurant with a good wine list and a sommelier, ask for help.
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Included on the wine list is a sake from Brooklyn Kura, New York State's first sake brewery.
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"Our wine list is usually quite European-focused so we've brought in some Californian wines," he says.
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The menu is concise; even with the wine list and desserts, it fits on a single page.
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More transporting is the wine list, which reads like an enviable itinerary: Sardinia, Umbria, Trentino-Alto Adige.
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Mr. Hermé also composed the wine list, choosing many bottles that he has in his own cellar.
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Like Charlie Bird, the restaurant has a wine list that is longer than Donald Trump's speech last week.
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The answer is staring at anyone who happens to be looking at a high-end Italian wine list.
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Not understanding one word [on the wine list] is much easier and understandable than not understanding seven words.
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The wine list is unsurprisingly great, with much thought given to what will pair well with the food.
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There's no formal wine list, though there are constant rotations of 10 to 15 wines by the glass.
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The bride's father is the owner of the Wine List, a wine importer and distributor, in New York.
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As for the wine list constructed by Aaron Thorp, it is better in every way you can name.
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C.A.M. also has a tight wine list that you could drink through in a single evening (I did).
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The wine list is long on Serbian wines with a few Croatian, Czech and Italian bottles thrown in.
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"Our wine list is a little strange," said the wine director, Lorenzo Baricca, who is from Emilia-Romagna.
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That charm does not quite extend to the wine list, which looks like one from four decades ago.
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There's also over 400 bottles on a wine list overseen by Amar Chebrek, the restaurant's sommelier for 25 years.
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So, next time you reach for the wine list, don't be a square—go for the au naturel choice.
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Fortunately, L'Antagoniste's phenomenal wine list starts at $19.50, for a Sauvignon Blanc from the same region, zippy and dry.
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In addition to the absurd wine-list drama, someone also punched the restaurant's owner, Stratis Morfogen, in the face.
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The sommeliers were particularly good at interpreting the wine list, which is well-rounded and can be quite reasonable.
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Staying local, the wine list includes a Thessaloniki chardonnay that is a slimmer, softer iteration of its global cousins.
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We were happy to find a 2006 Bordeaux by the glass on a wine list that skews Old World.
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There's also a lengthy wine list featuring excellent South American vintages — and the best pisco sours in town. cicciolinacuzco.
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Michaël Engelmann, who is in charge of alcohol, put together a robust wine list, closing in on 400 choices.
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This place has a crazy extensive wine list, but I just go for a few glasses of dry rosé.
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From its geek-worthy wine list, all organic and natural, to its foraged juniper gins, the philosophy is uncompromising.
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His partner and the manager, Yohann Pecheux, is from the Riviera and has assembled an all-French wine list.
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The wine list has bottles costing as much as $36,000 (though premium wines are not included in the resort rate).
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A glass of sparkling wine will be included, and there will be a 20 percent discount on the wine list.
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Wild might also be used to describe the wine list, where natural labels are the sole focus, unusual in Berlin.
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It has a wine list whose shallow end is very rewarding and whose deep end betrays extensive, possibly obsessive attention.
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For example: Order a glass of cabernet without consulting the prices on the wine list and you're in for $22.
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The wine list includes a silky 2004 cabernet sauvignon-merlot blend from Brazil, properly decanted from its chubby little bottle.
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The succinct, hyper-seasonal menu at Mokonuts, with its thoughtful natural wine list, reads like it's for a fancy dinner.
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Arvid Rosengren, an award-winning sommelier, is a partner here and has assembled a mostly French and Italian wine list.
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The wine list is very lopsided in favor of three-figure bottles, an irritating move for a fairly casual spot.
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Reading the Wine List Wine lists can be baffling, and becoming engrossed in a long list can eventually become antisocial.
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The dread conjured up by a restaurant's impenetrable wine list or a shop's vast rows of bottles is entirely unnecessary.
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The wine list reflects Fung Tu's penchant for the natural style: 22 Orchard Street (Canal Street), 212-219-8785, nomwah.com.
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There is no wine list, only a dozen or so bottles of excellent Friulan whites in the lobby's display refrigerator.
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Portions are rigorously controlled, though perhaps not as much as the sophisticated wine list, which features older, "non-interventionist" vintages.
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Klein admits that when she asks for recommendations off the wine list, "literally any of it could be good" to her.
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The restaurant offered a 21970-page wine list and a menu that included caviar with toast at about $230 per serving.
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The drink menu is short but delicious, with the kind of craft cocktails you'd expect and also a surprising wine list.
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ITV's wine list properly tilts toward France, though its various signature cocktails seem more in keeping with the barroom's brooding sleekness.
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He was scanning the wine list, and I sensed he was hoping I'd share a bottle of French rosé with him.
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The brief wine list at Wolfgat is entirely South African, a category of wines that is underappreciated in the United States.
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"Especially when someone is setting up a new restaurant, we have to work the wine list from scratch," Ms. Bakalopoulou said.
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According to the owners, Nialls Fallon and Nick Perkins, the menu is inspired by Portugal and Spain, like the wine list.
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The international wine list includes a number of choices from Israel and Lebanon: 34 East 20th Street, 2112-28-26, nurnyc.com.
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Its wine list includes many nearby producers of local white grapes like Vitovska and Malvasia Istriana that pair brilliantly with fish.
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You can treat your special someone to a romantic meal without tapered candles, white tablecloths, and a wine list you can't understand.
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For people who are amateurs, who are so afraid to look at the wine list, that's when you guide them through it.
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The short wine list, surprisingly, only offers a few bottles from the Golden State; France, Spain, Argentina and Italy are also represented.
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For many, an awareness of these wines defuses the hideous, anxiety-soaked ritual of pondering a wine list and making a decision.
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The wine list is full of wonderful bottles, but its most noteworthy feature is its breezy lack of concern for normal budgets.
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There is a circular bar, fine food, private table service, an extensive wine list and, on Monday night, a gin-tasting station.
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An earlier version of this review, using information from the wine list, misstated the location of the California winery Subject to Change.
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Try a glass of something from their "fancy wine list"—the most expensive glass is $8—but the real specialty here is beer.
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The staff is world-class, the decor is stunning, the accommodations are luxurious, the food is delicious, and the wine list is incredible.
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Unless you've spent your entire drinking career swilling cans of Tennent's Super, chances are you can find your way around a wine list.
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That fruit is used for Turley's white zinfandel, which has graced the wine list at Curtis Stone's Beverly Hills tasting menu concept Maude.
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While brick walls and industrial lamps create an airy atmosphere, perfect for lingering over a bottle from the varied, well-chosen wine list.
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Torst is also changing its approach to wine, developing a strictly natural wine list with bottles from Spain, Germany and the United States.
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The wine list now takes more than 20 seconds to read, and is especially worth exploring for fans of gamay and sparkling wine.
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Annie Shi, who superintends the dining room and is a third business partner with the chefs, can offer guidance with the wine list.
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A mixologist presides over the small lounge area; check out the menu of artisanal waters and craft beers and an extensive wine list.
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And the wine list, nearly 100 bottles strong and respectfully inclusive of Virginia wineries, encourages diners to get out of their comfort zones.
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"The dishes on the three-course prix fixe menu are conceived with the extensive, Old World wine list in mind," the website reads.
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Tip: They don't take reservations, so show up early or hang out with a drink (they have an excellent wine list); it's worth it.
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Expect seasonally rotating classic and signature cocktails, a long wine list, and a full dining menu served in a warmly lit but lively space.
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Latin-flavored bites like Spanish tortilla, salmon tostada and fennel toast with tinned sardines are on offer, with cocktails and a brief wine list.
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The rotating wine list comes from discontinued lines or bottles with damaged labels, while beer made with bread is bought from a Belgian brewery.
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Then, a surprise: the wine list, a world-class collection of bottles spanning the world, including inexpensive obscurities and fine, pricey Burgundies and Champagnes.
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A full bar offers cocktails, beer, and an all-French wine list; the chef-owner moved from Paris to Brooklyn twenty-three years ago.
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I enjoyed brunch at The Girl and the Fig, a farm-to-table eatery known for its award-winning wine list and charcuterie platters.
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The wine list was virtually a treatise on natural wines, a long document full of the names of eccentric producers and obscure European villages.
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Hoping to earn more as a waiter, he applied for a job at the Federalist, a restaurant that was renowned for its wine list.
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The wine list is also short and sweet, packed with new bottles from innovative small bodegas; try the Malbec from Bodega Pielihueso, if available.
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Now, sommeliers must rush them to the wine list as soon as they are purchased, as they cannot risk delayed returns on their investments.
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A person who knows of Don Peppe only as a scheme of Turtle's in an "Entourage" subplot may ask to see the wine list.
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The wine list features bottles from New York and Virginia: The Hilton Brooklyn, 140 Schermerhorn Street (Smith Street), Boerum Hill, 513-337-1280, blackwalnutbk.com.
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"Even if you don't like his family's politics, Koch's name alone on the wine list, is enough to entice the most discriminating buyer," Falcon said.
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EPIC Steak in San Francisco, California, is a steakhouse with a top-notch wine list and gorgeous views of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge.
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There are other Italian specialties, and a wine list by the consultant, Laura Maniec: 310 Bowery Bar, 310 Bowery (First Street), 212-477-773, 310bowery.nyc.
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You should be able to pick up a wine list and feel comfortable and find things that are relatable, regardless of your prior wine knowledge.
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Chef Brian Menges took over the old Murray Hotel diner in 2004 and remade it as a fine-dining restaurant with an extensive wine list.
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The small, rotating wine list highlights organic Catalan producers, and the ever-changing food menu is sourced mostly with local ingredients, particularly vegetables and grains.
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From the well-curated wine list, I chose the elegant white blend Arbis Blanc made by the famed Friulan brother-sister winery Borgo San Daniele.
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One of the most common requests I'd get from wealthy clients was to serve them their favorite wine, even if it wasn't on our wine list.
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Although Bloomberg praised Emirates for having "the best wine list in the sky," other outlets haven't been as quick to praise the airline, which seems weird.
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Under the capable guidance of Emily Campeau, the sommelier, the wine list has grown to some 100 bottles, running the global gamut from rosés to rieslings.
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If I was feeling lucky I might roll the dice on the wine list, which contains some reliably crafted natural wines alongside some lean, withholding ones.
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Even so, it is disheartening to open a highly touted restaurant wine list to see great Burgundies, Barolos and the like from the most recent vintages.
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The wine list is long and mostly from the Tapiz bodega, which also produces good olive oils (ask the server if you want to sample them).
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Behind the counter sits a shelf of wine glasses for the all-Greek wine list, touches that make the place feel plausible for a dinner date.
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Setting the tone for the whole experience is the wine list, which assembles major and minor members of the natural-wine movement in France and abroad.
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Il Mare, set on a bluff overlooking the beach, serves upscale Italian cuisine like handmade pastas and herb-crusted tuna along with a Continental wine list.
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The wine list is long on malbec, and the chef, also from Argentina, is Marcello Lazzarin: 132 Montague Street (Henry Street), Brooklyn Heights, 718-596-1800.
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And with a wine list centred on small producers and menu spanning dishes like chicken foie gras and smoked tuna ceviche, Septime certainly fits the bill.
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At one point, he learns that the existence of a wine list, a monument to the privilege of nobility, runs counter to the ideals of the revolution.
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On the menu's flip side is a wine list consisting of a mere 21909 selections, though they're an interesting lot, ranging from Lebanon to Crete to Slovenia.
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The wine list — one of the most interesting in the city, if not the country — is built on long relationships with natural wine producers, primarily in Europe.
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On a wine-tasting trip to New York, he sat at the bar at the restaurant Daniel and was wowed by the breadth of the wine list.
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They include the wine list, which packs a few nice surprises, not the least of which is the attention it pays to the $40 to $60 range.
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Cocktails are even more esoteric, and the wine list zooms out of South America for a tour of great coastal winemaking regions from Chile to New Zealand.
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Mr. Renoux, who grew up around Paris, honors his family's roots in the Loire Valley, with a wine list featuring an exceptional selection of minerally Chenin blancs.
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The new Southern food movement has been nurtured for 10 years at Miller Union, which serves hyper-seasonal dishes alongside the most interesting wine list in town.
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The wine list, which runs to 250 labels, is all natural and biodynamic, Ms. Fullin said, and mostly from small producers; often her brother has scouted the vineyard.
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At Benno, the Mediterranean-forward wine list — which is comprised of bottles from areas including Italy, Spain, Southern France, Greece, and Lebanon — comes in at around 450 bottles.
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As for the wine list, it does a great job of presenting reasonably priced bottles from all over, made by some of the leading producers in their regions.
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It is also one of the best places in the country to sample Australia's incredible seafood bounty, cooked simply and elegantly with a fantastic wine list to match.
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His longtime business partner Trevor Gulliver has managed the restaurants and upheld St. John's quirky tenets (including an old-fashioned all-French wine list) since the rocky beginning.
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Seeking a bit of warming comfort on a cold, rainy night, I ordered a glass of Valpolicella Classico, which might tell you something about the restaurant's wine list.
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While it used to be BYOB back in the day, it now has a beer and wine list to make sure you keep that Rainey Street buzz going.
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"Traditionally I'd always thought that the Michelin star was the peak of fine dining, you have to have a fancy wine list and spectacular dining experience," Edelman told Metro.
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Foodie pilgrims who travelled to Copenhagen to eat at Noma found a wine list with no Bordeaux and plenty of wines that were "wild" enough to match the food.
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Felice Ristorante is a Tuscan eatery with a regionally-focused wine list, and La Soffitta is a tucked-away cocktail bar featuring a striking wall of glowing wine bottles.
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Last year, the two were recruited to open a New York restaurant, the Usual, where Anthony's wine list received glowing media attention and helped him get nominated for the award.
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Like Amex&aposs other lounges, cocktails will be curated by renowned mixologist of Please Don&apost Tell fame, Jim Meehan, while the wine list will be picked by Anthony Giglio.
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Dishes are accompanied by an extensive wine list and one of the two owners will come to your table with multiple bottles to taste before you settle on your glass.
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The first job I ended up getting was at Oceana, a three-star New York Times fine-dining restaurant in Midtown: suit and tie, big wine list—you know the kind.
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Pretty crazy—just a little bit crazier than the 400-page leather-bound tome that houses Tour d'Argent's insane wine list and looks more like a Bible than a booze catalogue.
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This restaurant, butchers, and shop on Farringdon Road opened in 1869 and serves predominantly British, locally sourced food with an ever-changing wine list in its Grade-II listed dining room.
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Oddly enough, the wine list makes less of an impression than the ones at Charlie Bird and Pasquale Jones, simply because you'd expect an ambitious cellar in a restaurant this expensive.
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This small restaurant with a tidy menu of housemade pastas and beautifully tender fresh shrimp also has a diverse wine list with plenty of Uruguayan options, including merlots, tannats and blends.
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He'll be toting his famed vanilla-custard doughnuts across the Atlantic with a few selections from his restaurant's wine list, including bottles made at a medieval winery in the south of France.
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The private Lindo wing of St Mary's hospital in London, where the as-yet-unnamed prince made his entrance, offers luxurious suites, afternoon tea and a comprehensive wine list for celebrating parents.
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It would take weeks to work through the 120-strong wine list at the restaurant, which come from as far afield as New Zealand and Argentina through to Hungary and South Africa.
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Legligin This cozy restaurant (the name means "people who like to drink") has a dozen tables scattered over two small rooms, and a well-edited wine list featuring some excellent Maltese offerings.
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After traveling around Europe and spending several years in New York, he returned to Montreal, where he learned to be a sommelier at Laloux, a longtime bistro with an excellent wine list.
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That bounty has led to mostly vegetable-driven dishes — as well as just five services a week and a wine list that leans natural — not exactly what one might expect in Greenville.
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As a wine lover—I peruse a restaurant's wine list before I decide to dine there—I was already familiar with this style of wine, and I agreed wholeheartedly with this somm.
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Embla, in Melbourne's Central Business District, shares a similar M.O.: passionate young owners, a focus on snackable delicious food and a wine list geared mostly toward natural wines from Australia, France and Italy.
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Now, instead of going into a restaurant and looking at a wine list to try to figure out what you're going to have that night, you have technology to guide you, Dillon explained.
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Now, she's back in Montreal and at the helm of Candide's wine list, a job that has allowed her to reconnect with her own racines and rediscover the "terroir" of her native province.
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There is an excellent wine list that includes a few selections, including sparklers, from Brazil: Museu de Arte Moderna, Avenida Infante Dom Henrique 85, Glória; 011-55-21-2517-3129, bestfork.com.br/laguiole/contato.
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Mains, like seared codfish with salsify and miso hollandaise (18563 Swiss francs), and venison loin with savoy cabbage, celery and juniper (58 Swiss francs), are complemented by an extensive, thoroughly researched wine list.
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Sides like chile-dusted creamed corn ($29) also have a south-of-the-border accent, while the mostly American wine list includes a blend from locally made Arizona Stronghold Vineyards ($23 a glass).
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This casual restaurant with striking water views, in a redwood pavilion 800 feet above the ocean, serves American fare such as steaks and locally caught seafood and has a 350-bottle wine list.
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There are excellent Austrian bottles on the fairly concise wine list, but with prices that easily drift up above $70, you might wish the servers were better versed on their ins and outs.
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He had worked his way up through the local restaurant industry to that position and was known for having the largest German wine list in the city until he embarked into winemaking in 2005.
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I'm pretty much obsessed about the service I get, the bathrooms, the ambiance, the decor, what art is hanging on the walls, the playlist, and the actual depth of intelligence on the wine list.
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They are ready to drink now, and if they are on a restaurant wine list, a 213 might be preferable to a wine from a better vintage that is not yet ready to drink.
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Aside from the meat locker, the other useful idea Cote borrowed from steakhouses is a wine list that is chosen with beef in mind and can run into real money if you're not careful.
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The same chef/owner, Brian Arnoff, is rightfully lauded for Kitchen Sink Food & Drink (157 Main Street), featuring a good wine list and seasonal, delicious dishes like creamy sweet corn gnocchi with crab meat.
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Options for food and drink abound, from local, wood-fired fare and a mainly Mexican wine list at Nixtamal to a breakfast of eggs doused with fiery peanut-and-pumpkin-seed salsa at Enamora.
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Guidance through the wine list, which has some fashionably esoteric choices alongside some excellent, familiar ones, isn't quite as fluid as at the old Aska, but the servers know how to listen and respond.
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Then there's the wine list, as elaborate as one might expect from Mr. Magrez, with more than 160 chateaus and every cru classé (a term denoting recognized, high-quality vineyards) from the Bordeaux region.
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You couldn't call the wine list dated, with its unwashed, uncombed natural types among other groomed, sedate numbers, and some fine values between $50 and $75 tiptoeing among the super-Tuscans and 2005 Bordeaux.
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When you are ready for something to drink with the côte de boeuf, you run into another surprise of this Swiss Army knife of a restaurant: the versatile wine list, overseen by Jenny Lakin.
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If beer isn't your thing, there's Intermezzo, a hybrid coffee shop and cocktail bar in an airy space that serves an equally fantastic double espresso and Old Fashioned (they also have a nice wine list).
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Throngs of reporters waited for updates outside the Lindo Wing, a luxurious private maternity ward in London that has often been used by the royals and which boasts a comprehensive wine list for celebrating parents.
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Von Rock said that if you're feeling intimidated by a large wine list, especially if it's in book form, take a peek at the beginning of the list to see what the restaurant does well.
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As at Lilia, the wine list practically begs you to take something new for a whirl: a catarratto from Sicily, a Corsican niellucciu, or a croatina-ughetta blend from Lombardy softened with some uva rara.
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With her husband, Andrew Feinberg, Ms. Stephens owned Franny's in Park Slope, Brooklyn, a restaurant beloved not only in the neighborhood but throughout New York for its pizzas, rustic Italian fare and great wine list.
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I had high hopes going in, and even though I slept for much of the flight and skipped the tempting wine list because I was recovering from food poisoning, it definitely lived up to expectations.
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Not the dining room, not the menu, not the well-priced wine list, which covers about 80 bottles from Europe and the West Coast, and not the portions, which are really and truly meant for sharing.
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At Gustu, a Claus Meyer restaurant in La Paz devoted to promoting the nation's cuisine and training the country's next generation of chefs and restaurant workers, the wine list is entirely made up of Bolivian bottles.
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I knew my criticisms of other aspects of the dining experience, including the service, the wine list and the side dishes, would strike Luger loyalists as beside the point, so I ended the review by recognizing that.
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The scene is always energetic and loud, the wine list is stacked, bar manager Yanni Kehagiaras makes the best sherry cocktails in the city, and though the menu is always changing, the pork chop is a staple.
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It may have been the innocuous questions (to me, at least) I asked about the wine list, or perhaps any one of the kind-of-douchey things sommeliers do when they are trying to be regular people.
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That is still a lot to pay for wine, perhaps, but well below the Manhattan destination-restaurant norm, in which the wine list is often used as a cash cow to subsidize other parts of the operation.
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Leave enough time for a final glass before you rush off to the airport: The wine list features celebrated producers from regions like Badacsony, Eger and Villany, many of which you're unlikely ever to find anywhere else.
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There isn't a full sit-down menu, but the wine list is just long enough to make discerning drinkers happy, and a sterling selection of 30-odd American and European cheeses are available to mix and match.
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There is satisfying range on the wine list, too; the nuanced Farrside pinot noir from Australia is a far cry from the sparkling shiraz that was one of the only bottles Ssam Bar carried in its first year.
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Wine lovers will find a deep collection of reds and whites from California, especially from the venerable estates that have anchored the restaurant's wine list, like Dominus, Silver Oak and Phelps, with vintages going back to the 1970s.
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Freek's Mill A wine list with more than 40 cru Beaujolais, about as many chenin blancs from the Loire, an ample selection of sherries and a dozen bottles from the Republic of Georgia may give this place destination status.
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The wine list, meanwhile, is mostly French and sticks to the old guard; you can tell it's not trying especially hard to be cool by the way it has just one orange wine, lumped in with the sparkling wines.
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Called Claro, it is run by one of the owners of Freek's Mill, a nearby restaurant where the servers wear gingham shirts and talk up the virtues of the wine list made up almost entirely of gamay and chenin blanc.
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When it comes to wine, our decision-making abilities look something like this: We're either gambling with a hastily-grabbed bottle from the wine shop's suggested section, or we're playing it safe with the first recognizable glass on the wine list.
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OPS Many timely buttons are being pushed at this Bushwick pizzeria named for a Roman goddess of the harvest: naturally leavened pizza dough baked in a wood-fired oven, a natural wine list, craft beers and drinks that include amari.
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One University of Virginia graduate student and his lawyer friend, for example, decided to grab dinner at a buzzy Italian restaurant, only to bolt in horror when they were confronted with cello music, amber lights, a wine list and — yikes!
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The focus on local, small growers is evident in the wine list as well — for example, the sommelier chose an unusual and delightful sparkling wine from Ancre Hill Estates in Wales to accompany the cod, oyster and white currant dish.
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While the wine list will include some of the wonderful quirky wines that were a hallmark of Franny's, he said, he also wants to offer top-tier classic Italian wines, and possibly wines from a few favorite non-Italian regions.
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For the very hungry, the chef proposes the hedonistic 12-course pizza-tasting menu (45 euros, call ahead), alongside single pies (8 euros) all made with local ingredients, and a well-researched wine list that includes a decadent Pertois-Moriset Champagne.
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The wine list is a thumbnail version of Marta's, but the few wines are good ones; as at Marta, you're encouraged to drink sparkling wine in full or half bottles, kept here in an open refrigerator case facing the dining room.
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Mr. Zabar owns an excellent under-the-radar, typically quirky wine shop on the Upper East Side called Eli's List, right next door to his restaurant Eli's Table, which offers a terrific wine list with many bottles 21 to 21995 years old.
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"We hope this doesn't happen," said Beatrice Tosti di Valminuta, who, with her husband, Julio Pena, owns Il Posto Accanto, an Italian wine bar and trattoria that opened 21 years ago in the East Village, and whose wine list is almost entirely Italian.
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Blaufränkisch may need a little more time, and perhaps it needs the support of restaurants and sommeliers, who in the first decade of the 21st century helped transform the Austrian white grape grüner veltliner from a complete unknown into a wine list staple.
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While prices have risen to account for cellaring costs and other factors, the wine list, which now draws from an 2514,2845-bottle collection, remains an attraction of its own, both for the quality of its selections, particularly from France, and its deals.
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There are meaderies on Long Island, in the Hudson Valley and throughout the region, including Melovino in Vauxhall, N.J. Mead is on the wine list at Grand Central Terminal's Agern and in Brooklyn breweries like Grimm Ales and bars like Hops Hill.
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And the new restaurant's wine list, featuring more than 22 kinds of grapes, might surprise even vino-savvy Angelenos by offering niche labels rarely available in the U.S. Here, Obicà shares exclusively with T the recipes for the Santa Monica restaurant's branzino and tuna tartare.
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It'll feature an entirely natural wine list (with imports as well as wines from Bichi and their Tecate Mancunian neighbor, Phil Gregory's Vena Cava); simple food employing nose-to-tail butchery methods; and sustainable line-caught fish from Ensenada and Puerto Angel in Oaxaca.
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While some of our domestic airlines are proudly upgrading their inflight snack selection to include Snyder's brand pretzels, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines has spent the past few years smugly showcasing its wine list, which includes bottles from some of the world's most exclusive vintages.
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They go to Clown Bar for the intimate room, which is as elegant as it is kitschy; for the wine list, which is full of obscure and wonderful choices; and for the food, which is unmistakably Gallic — turbot with white asparagus, roast pigeon, veal sweetbreads.
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Before opening their innovative restaurant Pasture in 2016, the chef Ed Verner and his wife Laura Verner, who manages the wine list, spent a year gathering elderflowers to steep in vermouth, pickling spruce leaves, brining wild fennel and aging butter so it tastes like Camembert.
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An upscale alternative a short walk away, the ritzy Bearfoot Bistro features a baby grand, inventive cocktails and exhaustive wine list, and a dedicated oyster sommelier with an encyclopedic knowledge of mollusks far and near (plate of six East and West coast oysters, 30 dollars).
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Before the Met vacates the Breuer building next summer, make time now for its finespun retrospective of the Latvian-American artist Vija Celmins; then head downstairs for a drink at Flora Bar, with the smartest by-the-glass wine list on the Upper East Side.
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The wine-pairing menu evolved from a setback in the early days of L'Archestrate, when Mr. Guérard turned up for lunch and informed Mr. Senderens that the food was extraordinary but that the wine list was — here he used an unprintable term — less than adequate.
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Around us, 73-something men in unbuttoned blazers and thick-rim glasses swirled glass after glass selected from the carefully curated, 500-strong wine list, knowledgeable waiters expounded on the ingredients and several young couples seemed to be Instagramming the better part of their meal.
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That night at dinner at Trattoria Masuelli San Marco, a traditional Milanese restaurant with a blessedly regional wine list, I drank an excellent Barolo Bricco Delle Viole 2007 from G.D. Vajra, vibrant and expressive with a touch of welcome bitterness as the other flavors faded away.
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The appetizer of beef tongue, sliced thin and doused in olive oil, vinegar and garlic, is meltingly good, and the wine list does justice to Mendoza's offerings; on a recent visit a blend of malbec, cabernet sauvignon and bonarda from Matías Michelini, a Mendoza wine star, was on offer.
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Angler's purchasing ethic shapes its menu, but doesn't lend it a self-righteous air or begin to explain its appeal, which is more obvious: The restaurant, overlooking the Bay Bridge, is grand, fun, well-lit and expensively designed, with a deep wine list and a hunting-lodge feel.
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Our sommelier was smart and engaging as he talked about a Sardinian red we were curious about (as ever, the all-Italian wine list is a mix of blue chips and underrated discoveries), but after decanting it, he was nowhere to be seen and our glasses stood empty.
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Gwen is certainly the latest example of that, as well as a nondescript but ambitious new Japanese restaurant in Downtown LA called Shibumi, where Leer has recently joined the team to support chef David Schlosser and beverage director Jesse Brawner, who have crafted a tidy but outstanding wine list.
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Gramercy Tavern's wine list is justly celebrated for its catholic embrace of diverse regions and styles, but how many other restaurants make cider or a glass of beer (on draft or from one of the vintage bottles) seem like a natural choice with a dinner that costs $100 or more?
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The Chesterfield-style tufted-leather booths (a nod, presumably, to the early twentieth century, when my great-grandmother arrived at Ellis Island) are roomy and comfortable, but the pre-electricity-level lighting turns even twentysomethings on JSwipe dates into their boomer parents, straining to make out the all-Israeli wine list with iPhone flashlights.
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Although Kilian Robin, who is also the wine director for Eli Zabar, is involved in the project (smartly choosing the concise wine list, which focuses on tradition-minded producers, with prices that are more modest than those at Eli Zabar's restaurant and wine bars uptown), Oliver Zabar insisted that Devon was not a family collaboration.
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For the tasting, Florence Fabricant and I were joined by two guests, Eduardo Porto Carreiro, the beverage director at Untitled at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Chad Walsh, the sommelier at Agern, a Nordic restaurant in Grand Central Terminal that features an all-American wine list (with the exception of one sparkler from Denmark).
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The chef, Scott Bryan, had once earned three stars from The New York Times; the bartender was pouring almond-fat-washed rum and other state-of-the-art booze; the sommelier wore a silk pocket square and a tie bar as he offered thoughts on a wine list that casually ambled up into four-figure territory.
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It's easy to imagine a wine list for this crowd: vintage Champagne and high-end Burgundy for moneyed customers, a few rare bottles to demonstrate the reach and influence of the sommelier, some big names in Bordeaux and Napa Valley for the trophy and status hunters, and a nod to the Loire Valley for those who have been to the Paris wine bars.
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The front bar of this small spot has the best selection in town, with hundreds of whiskies, an excellent wine list, plenty of craft beers, and ambitious cocktails (often made with local spirits from Little Water or Bluecoat Gin from Philadelphia) that change often but are consistently delicious — try the "Buzz Word," a blend of gin, chartreuse, lemon juice and honey syrup, if it's on offer.
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"It will encourage and stimulate first class and business class upgrades prior to travel, while an on-board virtual first class will allow economy passengers to taste the first class menu, explore a wine list, and IFE (in-flight entertainment) in return for a paid premium usage of the VR headset wherever they are seated," Hrvoje Prpic, chief executive of Trillenium, wrote in a LinkedIn post earlier this year.
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The local-leaning wine list is ecumenical enough to include bottles from Istria, now part of Croatia, but which belonged to Italy before World War II. Recognizable by the crossed sabers in the window and spillover crowds in the alleyway, Do Spade ("Two Swords") offers seating in a warren of simply decorated blue rooms, but most customers prefer to eat standing by the open kitchen or in the street.
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