NYC’s Top 13 Restaurants for Wine

https://www.winespectator.com/articles/new-york-city-top-restaurant-wine-lists

It's only fitting that a city as populous and diverse as New York would have a thrilling, bustling dining scene to match. The Big Apple boasts innumerable top-notch restaurants, including nearly 200 Wine Spectator Restaurant Award winners, more than any other city in the world. With Wine Spectator’s annual New York Wine Experience happening Oct. 17–19, there’s no better time to delve into everything the city has to offer in the way of food and wine.

But with this magnitude and breadth of options, visitors and locals alike are left wondering: Where to begin? The restaurants below each offer 1,300 wine selections or more and feature serious breadth of top producers, outstanding depth in mature vintages, large-format bottles and superior organization, presentation and service. All have earned Grand Awards for delivering exceptional wine selections that can satisfy any enophile.

This is just a small sampling of standout wine spots that have earned Restaurant Awards. For more food-and-wine destinations around the world, take a look at Wine Spectator’s more than 3,700 Restaurant Award winners, including the 95 Grand Award recipients that hold our highest honor (with 63 across the United States).

Do you have a favorite you’d like to see on this list? Send your recommendations to restaurantawards@mshanken.com. We want to hear from you!

Sistina

Sistina has been an Upper East Side fine dining destination for more than 30 years, offering an unforgettable Italian food-and-wine experience with old-school New York flair. Now located in a historic Fifth Avenue townhouse, the restaurant has earned a Grand Award since 2018 for its impressive wine cellar, which boasts an inventory of more than 125,000 bottles.

What’s on the Menu

Chef and owner Giuseppe Bruno calls on both his upbringing in Southern Italy and the greenmarkets of New York to inspire his seasonal à la carte menus, which have featured dishes such as pappardelle in a veal Bolognese, roasted suckling pig with Brussels sprouts, squid ink linguini topped with seafood (calamari, clams and mussels) and roasted peppers, and four renditions of risotto. A recent standout entrée is the Colorado rack of lamb for two, with homemade yogurt, eggplant purée and a black truffle sauce.

Wine List Highlights

Bruno also oversees Sistina’s wine program, with Nestor Torres and Tetiana Kanelska leading the sommelier team. The wine list comprises 5,000 labels (representing a 125,000-bottle cellar), and while the focus is predominantly on Italian wines, many options from France and the U.S. West Coast are also available. To support Bruno’s Italian cuisine menu, Piedmont and Tuscany’s popular appellations and varieties shine brightest on the list, with a wide range of mature vintages and deep verticals from leading wineries, including Barolo from Bartolo Mascarello and Giacomo Conterno, Barbaresco from Bruno Giacosa and Gaja and Chianti Classico from Antinori.

Source:
Wine Spectator (Sep 2024)
"New York City’s Top 13 Restaurants for Wine"
https://www.winespectator.com/articles/new-york-city-top-restaurant-wine-lists