Ενδεικτικά, αναφέρουμε την περίπτωση του οινοποιείου Σιγάλα στην Οία, το οποίο στέλνει τα κρασιά του σε πολλές χώρες του κόσμου, ενω πρόσφατα το συναντήσαμε και σε άρθρο του περιοδικού www.nytimes.com
It's a challenge for restaurants to offer exciting lists of expensive or even moderately expensive wines. It’s a far greater challenge for restaurants to offer a wide selection of captivating, inexpensive wines. It requires creativity, thoughtfulness and dedication to gather wines that may not return as big a profit as the more expensive choices on the list.
Rather than judge a restaurant by what it offers at the high end, I decided to examine wine lists from the bottom up, by evaluating their bottle selections at $50 or less. Now, $50 a bottle is not cheap. But practically speaking, the best retail values these days are in the $17 to $25 range. If you follow the conventional formula for restaurant pricing of doubling the retail price, you have a list that can offer very good values at $50 and under.
New York overflows with great lists. I’ll admit: selecting the 10 best at $50 and under was not easy. Some restaurants that I thought would be shoo-ins, like Casa Mono or Trestle on Tenth, have their greatest values at a slightly more expensive level. Nice Matin offers great inexpensive choices, but I disqualified it because I had recently written about its wine list. And the sheer profusion of Italian choices meant some would be left by the wayside. Here, then, is my somewhat arbitrary list, in alphabetical order.
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GRAMERCY TAVERN, 42 East 20th Street, (212) 477-0777 Gramercy Tavern, one of the most expensive restaurants in New York? Yes! The list is brilliant from bottom to top, with great low-end choices like Préambulles, a striking, funky, sparkling wine from Causse-Marines in the southwest of France ($44); the excellent 2010 chenin blanc from Paumanok on the North Fork of Long Island ($44); the minerally 2010 Sigalas assyrtiko from Santorini ($48), and the delicious 2008 gamay from Grosjean in the Vallée d’Aoste ($40). The choices go on and on.
Παράλληλα, το περιοδικό Wine Spector, χαρακτήρισε το Ασύρτικο - Αθήρι του 2010, ως "wine of the week" σε πρόσφατο άρθρο του.
