Establishments from New York City dominated the top prizes at the World’s Best Wine Lists 2021, heading a field of some of the world’s best restaurants, bars, and hotels as the results of the world’s leading wine service awards were announced on Monday night.
Representatives from the world’s finest wine-led restaurants, bars, and hotels gathered around their computer screens on Monday night as the global winners of the World’s Best Wine Lists 2021 awards were announced in an online ceremony broadcast from London.
The 20 categories in the main competition featured winners from ten countries, and three continents, reiterating the truly global spread of the competition.
But it was a particularly good night for New York City, with the much-loved wine bar—and serial WBWL success story—Terroir Tribeca taking the Wine List of the Year and Eleven Madison Park taking the Champions’ League Best Overall Wine List, meaning the city took the two biggest prizes on the night.
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Establishments from New York also came out top in a further four categories, with another win for Terroir Tribeca (Most Original Wine List) and awards for Wallsé (Best Regional Wine List Outside its region), Contento (Best Micro Wine List), and Temperance Wine Bar (Best New Wine List).
Other American winners in what was another strong year for the USA in the competition included Washington DC’s Kinship (Best Medium-Size Wine List) and Seattle’s Wild Ginger (Best Value Wine List).
It was a good night, too, for Australasia, with Australia and New Zealand providing two category winners apiece: Wickens at Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria (Best Long Wine List) and Charred Kitchen & Bar, Orange, New South Wales (Best Spirits List) from Australia; and Cocoro in Ponsonby (Best Short Wine List) and The Ortega Fish Shack in Mount Victoria from New Zealand.
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Europe’s successes meanwhile were neatly divided with a top award apiece to: the UK (sketch Lecture Room & Library, London—Best By-the-Glass List with Coravin®); Italy (Antica Bottega del Vino, Verona—Best Regional Wine List in its region sponsored by Altair); France (Domaine Les Crayères, Reims—Best Champagne & Sparkling Wine List sponsored by Accolade Wines); Spain (Atrio, Cáceres, Spain—Best Dessert & Fortified Wine List sponsored by Taylor’s Port); Switzerland (The Chedi, Andermatt—Best Sake List outside Japan); The Netherlands (Bubbles & Wines, Amsterdam—Best Wine Bar List); Portugal (The Yeatman, Porto—Best Hotel Wine List); and Sweden (Grand Hôtel, Stockholm—Best-Designed Wine List).
Introducing the presentation from London, Neil Beckett, Chairman of the World’s Best Wine Lists judging panel and Editor of The World of Fine Wine, hoped the event would help raise spirits after another difficult year for the hospitality sector.
“In another year that has seen so many sad losses, it’s all the more inspiring and uplifting to see how many establishments of all kinds, all around the world, have managed to adapt and to survive, and whose wine offerings—representing so much accumulated experience, expertise, promise, pleasure, and value—should help them, and all of us, look forward to better times,” Beckett said.
The World’s Best Wine Lists 2021 Global Winners
Wine List of the Year
Terroir Tribeca, New York City, USA
Best Long Wine List
Wickens at Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia
Shortlist:
Les Amis, Singapore
Restaurant Tantris, Munich, Germany
Archipel Wine Cellar, Constance Le Prince Maurice, Mauritius
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, Houston, Texas, USA
South & Central America: Grand Old House, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Best Medium-Size Wine List
Kinship, Washington DC, USA
Shortlist:
Amelia, Hong Kong, China
2KW, Adelaide, Australia
Big Wine Freaks, Moscow, Russia
Hakkasan Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Quintonil, Mexico City, Mexico
Best Short Wine List
Cocoro, Ponsonby, New Zealand
Shortlist:
Restaurant Koke, Kyoto-fu, Japan
Ballymaloe House, Shangarry, Cork, Ireland
Boca, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Bristol, Chicago, USA
Oteque, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Best Micro Wine List
Contento Restaurant, New York City, USA
Shortlist:
Firedoor, Sydney, Australia
Park Row, London, United Kingdom
La Niña, Lima, Peru
Best Regional Wine List (in its region) sponsored by Altair
Antica Bottega del Vino, Verona, Italy
Shortlist:
Hajime, Osaka, Japan
Charred Kitchen & Bar, Orange, Australia
Karibu Restaurant, Cape Town, South Africa
PRESS Restaurant, St-Helena, California, USA
KUUK, Merida, Mexico
Best Regional Wine List (outside its region) sponsored by Altair
Wallsé, New York City, USA (for Austrian wines)
Shortlist:
Gattopardo Ristorante di Mare, Singapore (for Italian wines)
Felix, Sydney, Australia (for French wines)
Matteo’s at Annabel’s, London, United Kingdom (for Italian wines)
Blue Penny Cellar, Constance Belle Mare Plage, Mauritius (for French wines)
Luca, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (for Italian wines)
Best Champagne & Sparkling Wine List sponsored by Accolade Wines
Domaine Les Crayères, Reims, France
Shortlist:
Amber at the Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, China
Wickens at Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia
Archipel Wine Cellar, Constance Le Prince Maurice, Poste de Flacq, Mauritius
Babbo, New York City, USA
Grand Old House, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Best Dessert & Fortified Wine List sponsored by Taylor’s Port
Atrio, Cáceres, Spain
Shortlist:
L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, Hong Kong, China
Wickens at Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia
Archipel Wine Cellar, Constance Le Prince Maurice, Mauritius
Bern’s Steak House, Tampa, Florida USA
Graycliff Hotel & Restaurant, Nassau, Bahamas
Best Sake List (outside Japan)
The Chedi, Andermatt, Switzerland
Shortlist:
Nouri, Singapore
Saké, The Rocks, Sydney, Australia
Hakkasan, Abu Dhabi
The World Residences at Sea, Florida, USA
Best Spirits List
Charred Kitchen & Bar, Orange, Australia
Shortlist
La Terre, Singapore
Antica Bottega del Vino, Verona, Italy
Priva Lounge, Pretoria, South Africa
Spruce, San Francisco, California, USA
Quintonil, Mexico City, Mexico
Best By-the-Glass List (with Coravin®)
sketch Lecture Room & Library, London, United Kingdom
Shortlist:
Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, China
Charley Noble, Wellington, New Zealand
Jing, Constance Halaveli, Republic of the Maldives
Wine Bar George, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA
Ajuala, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Best By-the-Glass List (without Coravin®)
The Ortega Fish Shack, Mount Victoria, New Zealand
Shortlist
Nouri, Singapore
Sager + Wilde Hackney Road, London, United Kingdom
Cyann Restaurant, Constance Ephelia, Mahé Island, Seychelles
SingleThread Farms & Restaurant, Healdsburg, California, USA
Taste-Vin, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Best Wine Bar List
Bubbles & Wines, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Shortlist:
Chinois (Shibuya), Tokyo, Japan
10 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Terroir Tribeca, New York City, USA
Best Hotel Wine List
The Yeatman, Porto, Portugal
Shortlist:
Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, China
Wickens at Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia
Archipel Wine Cellar, Constance Le Prince Maurice, Mauritius
The Fearrington House Inn, Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA
Blue by Eric Ripert, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Most Original Wine List
Terroir Tribeca, New York City, USA
Shortlist:
Hajime, Osaka, Japan
fermentAsian, Tanunda, South Australia
Fare, London, United Kingdom
Hakkasan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Oteque, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Best-Designed Wine List
Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, Sweden
Shortlist
Amber at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, China
Attica, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Qunu at the Saxon Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Fearrington House Inn, Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA
Astrid & Gastón, Lima, Peru
Best New Wine List
Temperance Wine Bar, New York City, USA
Shortlist
Al Mare – The Carlton Tower Jumeirah, London, United Kingdom
Best Value Wine List
Wild Ginger, Seattle, Washington State, USA
Shortlist:
L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, Hong Kong, China
Cazador, Mount Eden, New Zealand
The Old Bridge Hotel and Wine Shop, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Best Cruise Line / Ship Wine List in the World
The World, Residences at Sea
Shortlist:
Glass House on P&O Cruises
Grand Dining Room on Oceania Cruises
Princess Cruises
World’s Best Wine Lists Champions’ League 2021
The shortlist for all five Champions’ League awards comprises the seven winners of the Wine List of the Year award:
The Barn at Blackberry Farm, Walland, Tennessee, USA
Eleven Madison Park, New York City, USA
Palais Coburg, Vienna, Austria
Park Hotel, Vossevangen, Norway
Pix Pâtisserie, Portland, Oregon, USA
Robuchon au Dôme, Grand Lisboa Hotel, Macau
Terroir Tribeca, New York City, USA
Champions’ League Best Overall Wine List 2021
Eleven Madison Park, New York City, USA
Champions’ League Best By-the-Glass Wine List
Park Hotel, Vossevangen, Norway
Champions’ League Champagne & Sparkling Wine List
Pix Pâtisserie, Portland, Oregon
Champions’ League Best Dessert and Fortified Wine List
Robuchon au Dôme
Champions’ League Best Spirits List
The Barn at Blackberry Farm
The World’s Best Wine Lists Awards are hosted in association with headline sponsor Gaggenau, with support from sponsors Altair, Accolade Fine Wines, Bouza, Familia Torres, Taylor’s Port, and Nude and with partners 67 Pall Mall and TEXSOM.
