WLC new entry: Sexy Fish

Sexy Fish – Wine List Confidential Score: 90.4

Sexy Fish – ‘a ludicrous restaurant with a ludicrous name in a ludicrous town’, according to Tanya Gold (Photo: Paul Winch-Furness)

Sexy Fish is the latest venture of Tory party mega-donor Richard Caring, and one which Tanya Gold, writing in her Spectator review, summed up as a ‘ludicrous restaurant with a ludicrous name in a ludicrous town’. The wine list isn’t quite so ludicrous – although occasionally it tries to be.

A pantheon of the best wines from all important wine-producing regions of the world, including Burgundy, Bordeaux and Rhône from many of the best recent vintages, stare out at you with the monolithic self-assurance of Moai statues. ‘I am great and I am here. Your move,’ they seem to say.

Head sommelier Julien Sahut (formerly of Hibiscus and China Tang) has put together a well-calibrated selection of around 25 wines by the glass, including six blockbuster whites and reds by Coravin. 125ml of Château Palmer ’95 from Magnum can be yours for an even ton if you don’t have time/money/inclination to commit to a bottle.

While ‘bargain’ is not really in the lexicon of the (reportedly) £20m splurge that is Sexy Fish, something approaching decent value can be found among the New World offerings. Adi Badenhorst’s Secateurs white (£42), won’t break the bank, for example.

And at the top end? Woo haa. Romanée-Conti ’04 for £13k a bottle, Jeroboams of Mouton-Rothschild ’86 at £10.5k, Methusalehs of DP ’95 for £7k – fill your Gucci boots.

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