Wine and Food Pairings, solved!

Well, maybe not solved, but at Rockpool Bar & Grill we spend a lot of time thinking about how our wine program will match with the amazingly varied menu that will be delighting diners for a long time to come.  Unlike many ordinary steakhouse style restaurants, we serve a lot more than just steak on a plate.  We have steaks, yes, but also some of the best seafood, pastas, vegetarian dishes – you name it.

What does this mean to you?  Glad you asked.  It means that unlike with nearly any other restaurant you can name, we have a menu that will pair with nearly any wine.  Whether it’s Shiraz, Bordeaux, Tempranillo from Spain, the best from Italy or for that matter, California, we have food that will be a great match for any of these.  Same with the whites: wines from anywhere in the World will find a match on the menu.

This is not a typical situation for a restaurant.  If you are at an Italian restaurant, you generally expect to drink Italian wines or Italian-like wines, such as Pinot Grigio or Shiraz.  French?  Drink one of the many, many wines from France, including Shiraz.  Tapas bars need Spanish wine, of course, or Shiraz.  And we all know, Japanese food often cries out for Sake, or Shiraz.

At Rockpool Bar & Grill, however, when you have a steak you could have a great Bordeaux, a nice Pinot Noir from Oregon or New Zealand, one of the top Italians such as Sassicaia or a perfectly aged Barolo.  And Shiraz is a superb match with a nice cut of beef too.  This list could go on indefinitely because nearly every wine region in the world creates a wine that fits with the far ranging menu of Rockpool Bar & Grill.

Given the enormous flexibility of the menu and its wine friendly nature, we decided that we didn’t need to focus the list in any particular area or away from any specific styles of wine.  This is a restaurant that can handle the World’s variety of wines, and we mean to provide that to our diners.  The only question became, where are we going to put it all?  We are still working on that one, but when you sit down at Rockpool Bar & Grill in Sydney, you will have choices from all of the great wine regions.  In some cases, you’ll have a lot of choices, such as the 375 different Red Bordeaux’s or the 700 or so different white wines from all around the globe.

In the next posting we’ll talk a bit more about how the list came about and why we think it will be one of the very top wine lists in the World.  When wine lovers come to Sydney, we expect that most of them will want to come down to 66 Hunter Street and take a look at what we’ve been able to put together, and hopefully they’ll enjoy a great glass of Shiraz with the amazing Wagyu Burger.

 

Tags: David Doyle, Rockpool Bar & Grill Sydney, Wine

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