Top US award for Print Hall wine list
WA wine buffs need not travel to Europe or the US to experience one of the finest wine lists in the world — one of the best is here in Perth.
The American wine “bible” Wine Spectator magazine has bestowed its highest accolade, the Grand Award, on the city’s Print Hall restaurant, the flagship fine diner in the Print Hall complex of restaurants, bars and a bakery cafe.
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Print Hall’s director of wine Jean-Charles Mahe with a $20,000 bottle of 1990 Romanee-Conti, a pinot noir from Burgundy. (Picture: Iain Gillespie)
The magazine said restaurants honoured with the Grand Award “typically offer 1500 wine selections or more, and their wine list features superior depth and breadth in many of the world’s major regions”.
In the 35-year history of the Grand Award, only 73 restaurants have won it. Just two of those have gone to Australian venues.
Print Hall has also won the 2015The West Australian Good Food Guide Wine List Of The Year Award.
Print Hall’s director of wine, Jean-Charles Mahe, said Wine Spectator’s recognition was the culmination of years of hard work.
“We have spent a lot of time sourcing unique wines not available to anyone else in Australia,” Mr Mahe said.
“Our contacts in Europe and other parts of the world have given us access to some very special, very rare and exciting wines.”
Print Hall’s cellars have nearly 2000 titles from most of the renowned old and new world wine producing countries and some of the more obscure and emerging winemaking nations, such as Lebanon, Uruguay and the Czech Republic.
The restaurant’s most expensive wine is a 1990 Romanee-Conti, a pinot noir from Burgundy in France.
It is yours for a mere $20,000.
Mr Mahe says one of the successes of Print Hall’s dining room has been the co-operation between the kitchen and the wine staff and “a willingness to experiment and innovate”.
Source: The West Australian, Rob Broadfield, July 7th 2015
