Best Champagne & Sparkling Wine List

Affinatore

Europe | Regional Winner

Milan, Italy

The Affinatore is one of the few Italians to be authorized by the official Japanese KOBE and offers a unique culinary experience, a sophisticated selection of the finest beef from all over the world. dry aged and prepared by the expert hands of our chef and also enhanced by the best wines on the list, carefully chosen to accompany our dishes.

Our restaurant opens to the public in the second half of 2022 and since then our goal has been to create a wine selection intended as a sensorial journey through the wine-growing regions of the entire globe. From the historically most well-known and established ones, up to lesser-known realities focused on quality and sustainable productions.

We are committed every day with passion and enthusiasm in offering our guests, even the most demanding ones, accurate and high-level service standards in an elegant and refined environment where the high quality of our dishes blends with research and food and wine innovation.

Since 2022 Affinatore is one of the few Krug Ambassade present in Italy and currently our wine list has more than 2800 references with a good depth of vintages and many choices of different formats.

Starting with a selection of the best Italian Traditional Method sparkling wines and then continue with a wide selection of over 200 Champagne with wines from large ”maisons” and those produced by vignerons divided by production area and then specifically by village to which the Domaines belongs.

There is a selection of bottles from 18 nations between the old continent and the new world, starting of course, with Italian excellences, with a particular focus on Piedmont, Tuscany, Valpolicella and much more. France with a generous choice from Burgundy and Bordeaux beyond selected wines from all over the world. A broad spirits list is also available.

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Blue Penny Cellar, Constance Belle Mare Plage

Middle East & Africa | Regional Winner

Poste de Flacq, Mauritius

“A meal without wine is like a day without sun ” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Keeping this saying in mind, at Constance Belle Mare Plage‘s Blue Penny Cellar, we have a delicious new concept, Around Wine.
You choose your favourite wine, and our skilled Chefs will create a complementing menu around it.

This does sound, sweet, right?  Keep on reading!

“Like all great matches in life, the pairing of wine and food is complex and varied, but fundamentally involves complementing and contrasting the different elements of each in hopes of creating a sum which is greater than its parts.”- Chef Goisset at Constance Belle Mare Plage

To simplify:  a good wine pairing should be able to enhance the food you are consuming, amplify your pleasure, by simultaneously urging you to keep tasting so as you discover more flavours unknown to your palate yet.

Our Around Wine concept starts with a warm welcome in the
Blue Penny Cellar by our sommelier followed by a brief explanation of the menu.

You can either choose the classic approach whereby you choose your dish and wine or dare to go for
Around Wine option which means you just pick your wine for Starter, Main & Dessert and our sommelier/chef will suggest you the perfect complementing dish!

For your information, you will have three different wines( by the glass) for Starter, three different wines( by the glass ) for the Main course, two different wines( by the glass) for Cheese and two different wines by the glass for dessert.

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Graycliff Hotel & Restaurant

South & Central America and the Caribbean | Regional Winner

Nassau, Bahamas

Graycliff Restaurant

Graycliff Restaurant is the first five-star restaurant in the Bahamas and Caribbean. The restaurant’s cuisine epitomizes elegance in the finest continental and Bahamian tradition with a menu that is both tasteful and distinctive.

The secret recipes at Graycliff have set its reputation in the hallmark of the rich and famous. Creative culinary innovation has resulted in a variety of sumptuous dishes that is distinctly its own. Bahamian dishes have been creatively transformed into sophistication and refinement with the end result being an international reputation for Bahamian cuisine.

Wines, Cognacs, Armagnacs and Ports

The wine cellar has over 275,000 bottles with over 5000 selections from 23 countries, acquired over decades by Graycliff’s owner and CEO, Enrico Garzaroli. He is passionate about the quality of the wines he seeks out and carefully adds to his collection, which is the 3rd largest private collection in the world.

A wine connoisseur’s dream with some of the rarest vintages in store, the cellar’s inventory ranges from such wines as an 1865 Château Lafite, to the oldest and one of the most expensive bottles in the world, a 1727 Rudesheimer Apostelwein from Bremer Ratskeller in the ”Rheinghau” Region, priced at US$200,000, to today’s most popular vintages.

In addition to the considerable wine inventory, Graycliff also boasts a Cognacteque, a unique collection of Cognacs, Armagnacs, Whiskey, Rum and more – one of the largest such collections in the world. The Cognacteque and Wine Cellar are constantly expanding as the CEO makes new finds to add to his collection.

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Quay

Australasia | Regional Winner

Sydney, Australia

Quay is one of Australia’s most celebrated restaurants. The recent reimagination of Quay has welcomed an organic space reflective of Executive Chef Peter Gilmore’s nature inspired cuisine. The Quay menu is a progression of rare and beautiful ingredients where texture, flavour and harmony is paramount. The interplay of textures and colour bring new life and a vibrance that embraces the restaurant’s place in the dress circle of Sydney Harbour.

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Restaurant Petrus at Island Shangri-La

Asia | Regional Winner

Hong Kong, China

Located in the central part of Hong Kong, Restaurant Petrus is a Michelin one-starred French fine dining restaurant at Island Shangri-La. Complemented with magnificent views of skyline and modern baroque interior, it epitomises the highest standard of excellence in fine and contemporary French cuisine with an award-winning wine list.

The foundation of our wine list was created in 1991 for the restaurant opening, and subsequently the wine list has become one of the most sought-after wine collections of Asia. The extensive wine collection includes around 1,200 wine selections from all around the globe, showcasing the best wines of most producing wine countries such as the large verticals of Bordeaux Châteaux, premium Château Pétrus collections, extensive vintages from other famous and exclusive chateaux, and more rare wines.

We have over 10 large wine cellars with different temperatures, which ensure different types of wines are stored at the ideal temperature according to the characteristics of their region of origin and grape varieties.

Coravin® service, a wine preservation system, is also available, allowing guests to enjoy the fine wines by the glass without opening a bottle.

Additionally, Restaurant Petrus hosted various high-end wine dinners in recent years. The scrumptious French cuisine is perfectly complemented with fine wines selected by Terence Wong, the Area Sommelier of Island Shangri-La and Kowloon Shangri-La and his professional sommelier team. As the wine experts, the sommelier team is dedicated to expanding guests’ wine knowledge and providing unique wine experiences.

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The Little Nell

North America | Regional Winner

Aspen, USA

The Little Nell’s’ wine program has a reputation as rich as its cellar. With 20,000+ wines in our cellar, our approach is based on a list that majors on classic producers and regions, with multiple vintages and wines from a roster of the world’s biggest names, from Roulot and Romanée-Conti in Burgundy to Ridge and Screaming Eagle in California, via Chave Hermitage, Piedmont’s Gaja and a superb collection of mature classed-growth claret.

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