Restaurant Wine List

[ltmikey]

Having ploughed through all the posts, finding some of them useful...others are less than useful...I decided not to force my opinion on anyone. I'll try to offer an alternative perspective. Here goes...
Dear Mikethechef, now that you know what you want to cook, it may be smart to figure out what it is that YOU want instead of your future guests. This may sound arrogant, but you have to be pleased yourself first before you can please anyone else. You are a selfprocelaimed wine illiterate, but being a chef you must have a well developed palate. So get together with your sommelier or winedirector and anyone else who will be advising the guests on food/wine issues in your future restaurant and judge for yourselves. Better even, have the sommelier select a couple of alternatives for each dish and make it a blind tasting to ensure objectivity.
Just keep in mind that it's hard to sell anything that one doesn't believe in for the full 100%
Good Luck,

Mikethesommelier