Best Regional Wine List (in the region)

Best Regional Wine List (in the region)

Best Regional Wine List (in the region)

Criteria

Best Regional Wine List celebrates those establishments that build close relationships with neighbouring wine producers, exhibiting an intimate knowledge of the region’s history and terroir and promoting local produce, both food and wine, as the stars of the show.

Successful lists offer unparalleled depth in the wines of the country or region and a strong focus on local grape varieties, enabling wine lovers to engage as fully as possible with the region. While these lists promote their particular country or region, Judges still consider the criteria of breadth, depth, height, balance, selection, accuracy, originality, suitability, design, and value.

Criteria

Best Regional Wine List celebrates those establishments that build close relationships with neighbouring wine producers, exhibiting an intimate knowledge of the region’s history and terroir and promoting local produce, both food and wine, as the stars of the show.

Successful lists offer unparalleled depth in the wines of the country or region and a strong focus on local grape varieties, enabling wine lovers to engage as fully as possible with the region. While these lists promote their particular country or region, Judges still consider the criteria of breadth, depth, height, balance, selection, accuracy, originality, suitability, design, and value.

WINNERS

Press Restaurant

Global Winner

California, USA

PRESS Restaurant puts the Napa Valley on a pedestal — the people, the ingredients, and the wines. PRESS is a place for locals, winemakers, vintners, and guests from around the world to experience the best the Napa Valley has to offer — it’s this sense of community that is at the heart of everything PRESS does.

Under the leadership of Samantha Rudd and Chef Philip Tessier, PRESS features legendary Bay Area purveyors alongside innovative new culinary talents to highlight Napa Valley cuisine.

The PRESS Culinary Team draws inspiration from around the globe while staying rooted in the style and ingredients that make the Napa Valley so special.

Website

Telephone: (707) 967-0550

Bennelong

Australasia | Regional Winner

Sydney, Australia

With Peter Gilmore, one of Australia’s most celebrated chefs at the helm, Bennelong serves to celebrate the Sydney Opera House and its extraordinary architecture by offering a culturally significant and inspiring menu, showcasing a most magnificent production of Australian food and wine.

In addition to a small selection of incredible wines sourced from around the globe, Bennelong is proud to offer over 200 of Australia’s favourite small-scale labels from an eclectic collection of wine-makers.

Website

Email: reservations@bennelong.com.au

Telephone: 02 9240 8000

Hajime

Asia | Regional Winner

Osaka, Japan

HAJIME was founded in May of 2008 in Osaka
by Hajime Yoneda with the theme of “A truly wonderful restaurant.”

The cuisine it serves is created with the utmost attention to details, delicately fine-tuned skills, a spirit of innovation, and an uncompromising spirit of enquiry.

The worldview of HAJIME is the product of the aesthetics of Hajime Yoneda,and represents the beauty of order found
within the balance and harmony of nature, the earth, and space. One can also experience within his creations a feeling of respect for nature and the earth, the fleetingness of life,
and ultimately a sense of life itself.

Creations – embodying both the basis and subsequent progress of gastronomy – are timeless and moving, lingering in the heart and mind.

Take a glimpse unto the world of HAJIME and enjoy to the full.

Website

Email: office@hajime-artistes.com

Telephone: 06-6447-6688

K’u’uk

South & Central America and the Caribbean | Regional Winner

Mérida, Mexico

K’u’uk is a Mexican restaurant with a close approach to the authentic Mayan roots & ingredients mixing avant-garde techniques

“”10 years ago we had the dream of creating a space in which tradition and avant-garde were one and the same.

You and I are that, we are K´u´uk. Thank you””

– Eduardo Rukos & Pedro Evia

Website

Email: reserva@kuukrestaurant.com

Telephone: +52-999-9443377

La Bandiera

Europe | Regional Winner

Abruzzo, Italy

Among the delicate colours of Pescara’s hills, a minimal and innovative cuisine based on the extraordinariness of the raw materials, chosen one by one by the reliable local producers, genuinely tells the visitor about the ancient traditions of this land and its countless tastes.

The menus, both à la carte and tasting, embrace a wide gastronomic range that is able to narrate the century-old historical background of a generous land.

Thorough and balanced, with special consideration for organic productions, the wine list created and set up by Alessio enhances the best offer of the regional, national and french oenology, yet without omitting a good selection of worldwide labels.

Family run, Anna D’Andrea, in 1977 after twenty years of work experience as a cook in Rome, returned to Civitella Casanova to give shape and substance to her dream: converting a salt and tobacco shop into a trattoria.

Following in his mother’s teachings over time Marcello Spadone and wife Bruna, with thanks and help from their children, Alessio and Mattia, and a close-knit team of collaborators have transformed La Bandiera into an elite place of the Abruzzian gastronomy.

Website

Email: info@labandiera.it

Telephone: 85845219

Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve

Middle East & Africa | Regional Winner

Johannesburg, South Africa

Family owned Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve has been welcoming visitors to the Bushveld for more than 40 years.

With four luxury lodges that epitomise the design philosophy of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Sabi Sabi continues to be celebrated for its commitment to conservation and community, incredible wildlife encounters, fine cuisine and true South African hospitality which make for a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Taking pride in featuring undiscovered and much-loved boutique South African wines, Sabi Sabi enjoys seeing the reactions of guests as they find a new favourite which they will always associate with their stay. Some of the finest South African wines are housed in the cavernous Earth Lodge wine cellar, selecting the very best from family owned or boutique wineries across the country.

Guests can also sample Sabi Sabi’s own label wines, produced by Stellenrust Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. Choose from a Shiraz or Cabernet Sauvignon, matured in the cellar of Earth Lodge in oak barrels and bottled in early 2017.

Website

Email: res@sabisabi.com

Telephone: +27 11 447 7172