Restaurant Wine List

[winoweenie]

Mike--to be maybe a chef, welcome to the board. Let`s start with the start. You`re a chef-to-be and working in Sonoma Ca. The people who will determine you`re bosses sucess live, work, and breath Sonoma county products. Do you imagine a restaurant in Lyons would have Dehlinger, Ch. St Jean or Arrowood etc on their list?NOT! The most successful restaurants in No. Calif have wine lists that are exclusively Calif. ( Mustards, Terra, Brava Terrace etc). What makes a great chef is taking the available ingredients of the that area that are the freshest,seasonal, and most available and pairing them with the wines that make the perfect pairing. My Goodness fellow, you`re in the vortex of one of the greatest wine-producing areas of the world and you`d like to look for better wines elsewhere. You should learn the immense varieties available to work with, see if you`re talented enough to make a dish that compliments them, then work to improve the dish. SHEESH! winoweenie