Most Original Wine List

Most Original Wine List

Most Original Wine List

Criteria

Most Original Wine List showcases lists that have an unusual selection of wines or a particular personality that shapes them. Successful lists demonstrate not only a profound understanding of the wines, but a clear vision reflecting the experience and passion of their creators. The Judges will consider a criteria of breadth, depth, height, balance, selection, accuracy, originality, suitability, design, and value still apply when making an assessment, but originality clearly assumes a higher importance.

Criteria

Most Original Wine List showcases lists that have an unusual selection of wines or a particular personality that shapes them. Successful lists demonstrate not only a profound understanding of the wines, but a clear vision reflecting the experience and passion of their creators. The Judges will consider a criteria of breadth, depth, height, balance, selection, accuracy, originality, suitability, design, and value still apply when making an assessment, but originality clearly assumes a higher importance.

WINNERS

Contento

Global Winner

New York City, USA

Contento is vibrant, inclusive and accessible neighborhood restaurant located in the heart of East Harlem serving fun, thoughtful and eclectic food and beverage. Chef and Peruvian native Oscar Lorenzzi heads the kitchen, and sommeliers and social advocates Yannick Benjamin and Mara Rudzinski head the hospitality and social outreach programming. Lorenz Skeeter and George Gallego work hard on the back end making things run.

Website

Email: info@contentonyc.com

Telephone: (646) 410-0111

Mesa by José Avillez, Grand Lisboa Palace

Asia | Regional Winner

Macau, China

Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau, is an authentic gastronomic destination, where trend-setting restaurants helmed by award-winning chefs curate extraordinary dining experiences for guests from around the world.

Mesa by José Avillez is designed by fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld, with the interior featuring a bold blend of contemporary design and oriental inspiration. Here, the designer’s signature style and favourite colors – geometric patterns, shapes, and lines in black, white and gold – are stylishly infused with elements from the East.

For an elevated gastronomic experience, the restaurant’s food offerings can also be paired with a wine list that features 1,953 labels of old world and new world wines ranging from “cellar extraordinary” wines to sommelier-recommended selection.

Curated through a passion for wine, award-winning Sommeliers have handpicked the best and most interesting terroir selections from an array of bespoke winemakers; inviting guests to experience an authentic journey of wine representing the harmony of aromas.

Website

Telephone: (853) 8881 1800

Quintonil

South & Central America and the Caribbean | Regional Winner

Mexico City, Mexico

Quintonil –Mexico City, 2012– is the emblem of the gastronomic project directed by Alejandra Flores and Jorge Vallejo, whose purpose is to express in its menu the flavors of the ingredients of the Mexican territory under a personal gaze.

Since 2015, Quintonil has been on The 50 Best World’s Restaurants list, where it currently ranks 9th globally.

Website

Email: contacto@quintonil.com

Telephone: +52 555280 2680

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

Supernormal

Australasia | Regional Winner

Melbourne, Australia

Supernormal is beautifully executed; a slick, understated fit out, an open kitchen and that indefinable X-factor that chef-restaurateur Andrew McConnell weaves into each new venture.

Design wise the feel is indisputably Japanese – something made very clear by the crimson neon cherries that can be seen from the Flinders Lane entrance. Housed in the 171 Collins Street development, the large, glass-fronted space features playful touches such as Japanese snack vending machines, more vibrant neon and even a basement karaoke room.

A long, zinc-topped bar flanks one side of the room, parallel to the open kitchen where a platoon of chefs work in full view of the dining room. Even though the space is large, it creates a sense of cocooning warmth, helped along by the glow of the custom-made, cube-shaped lights lining the kitchen bar.

You’ll find plenty of Chinese influence on the menu – an echo of McConnell’s time spent living and working in Shanghai and Hong Kong. It features dishes such as dumplings and bao. There are plenty of Korean and Japanese flavours shining through too, kimchi, steaming bowls of ramen at lunch and some of the most delightful and creative desserts we’ve had in some time. There are also classics such as the lobster rolls and the peanut-butter parfait.

Website

Email: info@supernormal.net.au

Telephone: +613.9650.8688

Capofaro, Tasca d'Almerita

Europe | Regional Winner

Salina, Italy

Capofaro was created from the love that the Tasca d’Almerita family has for wine and sea, a spectacular estate on the island of Salina designed for friends, guests and travellers of taste, providing the best in Mediterranean hospitality.

Capofaro is the culmination of Sicilian cuisine and the Tasca family’s gastronomic traditions, recreated in the restaurant’s kitchen with the best local raw materials, craftsmanship and the creative flair of a southern chef. Capofaro, a member of the Relais & Châteaux association since 2017, is a place where you discover that luxury is a natural beauty.

Website

Email: info@capofaro.it

Telephone: +39 090 98 44 330