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New on Wine List Confidential: Seven Park Place
Seven Park Place – Wine List Confidential Score: 90.6
Burgundy-wise, a class act – but thank goodness they use Coravin
Burgundy is the byword in The Wine Book at Seven Park Place – but don’t expect to pay anything less than three figures for the vast majority of it. Unless you’re rich or spending someone else’s money, you may have to settle for decent vintages from the ‘lesser’ appellations, or indeed bypass the Cote D’Or altogether and plump for a Beaujolais – Thibault Liger-Belair’s ‘Les Rouchaux’ Moulin-a-Vent is a charming wine and is only £68.
Who needs Richebourg and La Tâche? Well, maybe not…
Head sommelier Gonzalo Rodriguez has earned his berries at Stovells in Surrey and Thackerays in Tunbridge Wells. He notes that about 75% of the restaurant’s wine sales are through the pairings for chef Andrew Drabble’s tasting menus.
You’ll find three different pairings for the tasting menus: ‘Discovery’, for which Rodriguez pairs the food with unusual wines from lesser known regions or grapes; ‘Premium’, pairing classic wines from good vintages from regions around the world; and ‘Burgundy’, which has, and conceived in response to St James guests’ apparently insatiable thirst for wine from the Cote D’Or.
It’s not all safe bets, either – Rodriguez likes to introduce guests to lesser known regions, grapes and styles, when possible – as exemplified by the selection of still Coteaux Champenois whites and reds.
Pricing is the going rate for Mayfair – so quite high, but if you’re canny and prepared to go off-piste you’ll find the odd bargain – the Tissot Traminer 2006 being a case in point.
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