ideal restaurant wine list

Dunno in terms of actual bottles, but a few reccomendations would be nice. For the meals that the restaurant serves, a few comments on the =kind= of wines which would probably go well (and why), and then three or so reccomendations. Some restaurants will reccomend only one wine, which I don't like (it presumes to make a decision for me, rather than give me information with which I could make a choice), and others give no reccomendations at all, leaving me to guess what the chef has in mind based on the menu's sometimes inadequate descriptions.

Jose

Makes absoluetly no sense when you don't say where you're based: London, Madrid, Martinique? Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, Singapore? Cape Town, Milan, Buenos Aires?

M.

Michael, it's obviously the US

;-)

Of course. But I won't tell you that markets/availability/prices might differ slightly from state to state ... ;-)

M.

Only minimal help on the question, but: I was in the UK on Thurs, hence no real 'Thanksgiving' but a very nice meal at the Crooked Billet, which has won the UK Wine List of the Year a couple of times (in part because they have everything, up to and including '98 Margaux at 110 quid, available by the glass!). Their current list is available via

Tom wrote:

Maybe I should have been more specific, sorry. Location i believe will be Baltimore, and for prices she knows distributor's prices in MD. There is an overall idea for the wine list, and the restaurant is attempting to cater to the ("elitist, eurocentric") oenophile's. What I was trying to ask is what wines would all of you, as wine geeks, would love to have on a wine list. which bordeaux or borolo would make your mouth water when you saw it on the wine list? I have helped where I can, but my experience is mostly under $15 bottles, although that is changing to the detriment of my wallet

-tomw "waiting for a credit card in the mail so I can try many more wines"

Dang, they are quite a bit outside of London. I guess that I'll have to travel to the country and give them a try. Thanks for the link.

Hunt

PS Just did the Greenhouse in Mayfair and they, too, had a wonderful wine list. Did the sommelier's pairing with a six-course menu and it was almost over the top.