Champions' League Best By-the-Glass Wine List 2021

Park Hotel, Vossevangen, Norway

Situated on the banks of Lake Vangsvatnet in the centre of Voss, Norway, Park Hotel Vossevangen enjoys magnificent views of the surrounding nature. The menu of the hotel’s Elysée restaurant changes frequently according to the seasons and the availability of local produce, featuring local Norwegian delicacies as well as international dishes. Jan-Bruse Andersen carved out the legendary cellar over 30 years ago. Today his tradition is carried on by Francesco Marzola, the hotel’s wine director and the cellar is filled with over 42,000 wines from all over the world with approximately 5,300 labels. This means that the wine is drunk at the optimal point.

Email: booking@parkvoss.no

Website: www.parkvoss.no

Address: Park Hotel Vossevangen As, Uttrågata 3, 5700 Voss, Norway

Champions' League Best Champagne & Sparkling Wine Selection 2021

Pix Pâtisserie, Portland

Pix Pâtisserie is a little window to Europe that landed in Portland, Oregon in 2001 offering a casual dining space with a focus on French desserts. Bar Vivant shares the same space and brings a savory side in the form of Spanish pintxos, as well as a selection of some of the best conservas from Spain. Pix Pâtisserie / Bar Vivant offers a wine list with a focus on small producers that push the boundaries to make exciting and exceptional wine. Over the past couple of years Pix Pâtisserie / Bar Vivant has acquired many single vineyard champagnes. These wines offer a unique experience to taste the different terroirs in the champagne region, which in the past were almost always blended away. The wine list showcases about 1,500 selections, including over 750 champagnes in formats ranging from demi bottles to methuselahs, a remarkable range of over 190 sherries and a notable collection of dessert wines, including madeiras dating back to 1907. Their approach is always to create a list that is accessible and affordable, with the aim that customers can enjoy a great glass and have an opportunity to try something new and unique to them, all while staying in their price range, whatever it may be. Plus, full disclosure, with disgorgement dates on champagnes and bottling dates on sherries, ports and madeiras is offered where possible. As a previous winner of Wine List of the Year, Pix Pâtisserie competes in the Champions’ League.

Email: pix@pixpatisserie.com

Website: www.pixpatisserie.com

Address: 2225 E Burnside St, Portland, 97214, Portland, United States of America

Champions' League Best Dessert & Fortified Wine Selection 2021

Robuchon au Dôme, Grand Lisboa Hotel, Macau

Robuchon au Dôme is situated on the 43rd Floor in the dome of Grand Lisboa Hotel, Macau, China, which is 238 meters high, offering diners a magnificent view of Macau city. A Swarovski crystal chandelier cascades from the ceiling of the restaurant, and floor lamps by Baccarat light up the wine cabinets that house sculptures representing famous wine Château. The restaurant sets a high standard for luxury décor, fine dining and culinary artistry. The restaurant offers a superb menu of French gastronomic cuisine, meticulously crafted by the Michelin-starred chef, the late Joël Robuchon. Boasting one of the most extensive and exclusive wine collections in Asia with over 17,000 labels, Robuchon au Dôme is one of the region’s top dining destinations. Having won the World of Fine Wine Award for Wine List of the Year, the list now competes annually in the competition’s Champions’ League.

Email: reservation@grandlisboa.com

Website: www.grandlisboahotels.com

Address: Grand Lisboa Hotel, 2-4 Avenue de Lisboa, Macao, China

Champions’ League Best Spirits Selection 2021

The Barn at Blackberry Farm, Walland, Tennessee

Nestled among the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, Blackberry Farm, one of America’s finest luxury hotels is the location for The Barn restaurant. Set in the heart of the farmstead, The Barn offers refined fine-dining. Custom chairs, antique-style linens and sterling silver all capture the essence of farm dining in the South. The restaurant aims to “express the essence of our food from the farm and South, though not necessarily ‘southern food.’” The ingredients are sourced regionally or grown on site, only metres from the restaurant where they’ll be consumed. The Barn’s creative cookery is well matched by a superb modern wine list, containing over 9,000 selections. It is a list characterised by breadth and depth in all styles, covering the Old World and the USA. This has been described by World of Fine Wine judges as “a vast list of the finest wines from all around the world, including some of the rarest and most difficult to find, but also some up and coming producers as well.” The list is notable too for the superb layout and elegant typeface.

Address: Blackberry Farm, 1471 West Millers Cove Road Walland, Tennessee 37886, United States

Champions' League Best Overall Wine List 2021

Eleven Madison Park, New York

Eleven Madison Park is a fine dining restaurant located in the heart of New York City. The restaurant overlooks one of the most beautiful parks in Manhattan, Madison Square Park, and sits at the base of a historic Art Deco building on the corner of 24th Street and Madison Avenue. The restaurant has been owned by Chef Daniel Humm and Restaurateur Will Guidara since 2011 and during that time it has evolved considerably, both in food and in experience. Every dinner purchased at Eleven Madison Park provides five meals to New Yorkers experiencing food insecurity. As a previous winner of Wine List of the Year, Palais Coburg Residenz competes annually across five categories with each year’s overall winner in the Champions’ League. The wine list has been praised by World of Fine Wine Judges as ‘a vast, impeccably presented list that covers the esoteric as well as the classic with particularly impressive Burgundy and Rhone sections’.

Email: info@elevenmadisonpark.com

Website: www.elevenmadisonpark.com

Address: Eleven Madison Park, 11 Madison Ave, New York, NY, 10010, United States

Restaurant Mosaic at The Orient Hotel, Pretoria

Restaurant Mosaic at The Orient Private Hotel in Pretoria is one of South Africa’s finest destination restaurants. Renowned Impressionist artists and interior decorators were commissioned to create a restaurant that was both romantic and unique, evoking the early 1900’s. It has an intimate feel with booth-type seats and two private dining rooms. Award-winning Chef Chantel Dartnall combines her classical French training with her love of nature and is passionate about using organic and seasonal produce. Restaurant Mosaic has been a consistent winner at the World’s Best Wine Lists Awards since their inception. In recent years, the establishment has secured awards as Best Hotel Wine List in the World, Wine List of the Year and also won Best By-the-Glass Wine List on its debut in the Champions’ League. World of Fine Wine judges have called Mosaic’s selection “hard to beat’ with the list assessed as “brilliant by any global standard’. A truly outstanding contender in the World of Fine Wines Champions League.

Orient Boutique Hotel, Francolin Avenue, Elandsfontein, Pretoria  186, South Africa

Champions' League Best Champagne & Sparkling Wine List

Pix Pâtisserie, Portland, United States

Pix Pâtisserie is a little slice of France that landed in Portland Oregon in 2001, offering both innovative and traditional French desserts, chocolates and house made ice creams alongside a plethora of top notch beverages. Pix houses a proper Spanish tapas bar named Bar Vivant.

Owner/ Chef Cheryl Wakerhauser travels often to France and Spain to better understand the atmosphere, culture, flavours and techniques associated with French pastry, Spanish tapas and the tasty beverages that accompany these dishes. These aspects are then recreated in Pix with as much authenticity and quality as possible. Pix Pâtisserie offers a wine list with a focus on small producers that push the boundaries to make exciting and exceptional wine.

The list showcases 1,200+ selections, including 700+ champagnes in formats from demi bottles to methuselahs, a remarkable range of over 170 sherries and a notable collection of dessert wines, including 1907 madeira.

The approach is to create a list that’s accessible and affordable. Pix want their customers to enjoy a great glass and have an opportunity to try something new and unique, all while staying in their price range.

They offer full disclosure, with disgorgement dates on champagnes and bottling dates on fortified wines.

2225 E Burnside Street, Portland, Oregon 97214, United States

Champions’ League Best Dessert and Fortified Wine List

Robuchon au Dôme, Grand Lisboa Hotel, Macau SAR, China

Robuchon au Dôme is situated on the 43rd Floor in the dome of Grand Lisboa Hotel, Macau, China, which is 238 meters high, offering diners a magnificent view of Macau city. A Swarovski crystal chandelier cascades from the ceiling of the restaurant, and floor lamps by Baccarat light up the wine cabinets that house sculptures representing famous wine Château. The restaurant sets a high standard for luxury décor, fine dining and culinary artistry. The restaurant offers a superb menu of French gastronomic cuisine, meticulously crafted by the Michelin-starred chef, the late Joël Robuchon. Boasting one of the most extensive and exclusive wine collections in Asia with over 17,000 labels, Robuchon au Dôme is one of the region’s top dining destinations. Having won the World of Fine Wine Award for Wine List of the Year in 2015, the list now competes annually in the competition’s Champions’ League.

Grand Lisboa Hotel, 2-4 Avenue de Lisboa, Macao, China

Champions’ League Best Spirits List

The Barn at Blackberry Farm, Townsend, TN, United States

Nestled among the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, Blackberry Farm, one of America’s finest luxury hotels is the location for The Barn restaurant. Set in the heart of the farmstead, The Barn offers refined fine-dining. Custom chairs, antique-style linens and sterling silver all capture the essence of farm dining in the South.

The restaurant aims to “express the essence of our food from the farm and South, though not necessarily ‘southern food.’” The ingredients are sourced regionally or grown on site, only metres from the restaurant where they’ll be consumed.

The Barn’s creative cookery is well matched by a superb modern wine list, containing over 9,000 selections. It is a list characterised by breadth and depth in all styles, covering the Old World and the USA. This has been described by World of Fine Wine judges as “a vast list of the finest wines from all around the world, including some of the rarest and most difficult to find, but also some up and coming producers as well.” The list is notable too for the superb layout and elegant typeface.

1471 W Millers Cove Road, Townsend, Tennessee 37882, United States

Champions' League Best Overall Wine List

Eleven Madison Park, New York, United States

Eleven Madison Park is a fine dining restaurant located in the heart of New York City. The restaurant overlooks one of the most beautiful parks in Manhattan, Madison Square Park, and sits at the base of a historic Art Deco building on the corner of 24th Street and Madison Avenue.

The restaurant has been owned by Chef Daniel Humm and Restaurateur Will Guidara since 2011 and during that time it has evolved considerably, both in food and in experience.

Today, the restaurant offers an eight to ten course menu in the main dining room, but guests can also visit the bar for a more abbreviated tasting menu, some light snacks, or simply for a cocktail or glass of wine.

The wine list itself was praised by World of Fine Wine Judges as ‘a vast, impeccably presented list that covers the esoteric as well as the classic with particularly impressive Burgundy and Rhone sections’.

Eleven Madison Park, 11 Madison Ave, New York, NY, 10010, United States