Star Wine List

Star Wine List serves as a comprehensive guide to exceptional wine bars and restaurants globally. In addition to being a directory, Star Wine List operates as a media organization, sharing stories and fostering connections within the wine community in the restaurant industry.

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Amara at Paraiso’s Amanda Fraga on Miami, Malbec and winning at Star Wine List of the Year

1 week ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows

In May 2025, the Star Wine List of the Year competition visited Florida for the first time. At an awards ceremony held in Miami Beach, the great and the good of the state’s sommelier talent were presented with Gold Stars, including Amanda Fraga, Beverage Director of The Genuine Hospitality Group. A Miami native, Amanda’s knowledge of – and passion for – the city’s wine offerings is palpable. Here’s her story.
Five new Red Stars from Milan Ambassador Cristina Mercuri

2 weeks ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows

Wine educator, presenter and consultant Cristina Mercuri has reported for Star Wine List from her home of Milan since 2022. Just in time for summer in the city, she’s adding five new Red Star recommendations. If you’re heading to Milan this summer and hoping to explore its hottest wine spots, Cristina Mercuri has some advice for you: make a reservation first! “Milan becomes noticeably quieter in summer,” she explains, “as many locals head out of town for holidays.
Le Chat Noir's Takeshi Okajo: winning at Star Wine List of the Year Japan “motivated me to keep improving”

2 weeks ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows

This year saw Star Wine List’s first wine list competition in Japan, with the biggest prize of all going to Osaka wine bar Le Chat Noir. Here, we meet the man behind the wine selections. Le Chat Noir, in Osaka’s lively Higashi-Shinsaibashi neighbourhood, won the Gold Star for Best Short List and, subsequently, the Grand Prix, at the Star Wine List of the Year Japan 2025 – our first celebration of the country’s wine lists.
Winners in Star Wine List of the Year Switzerland 2025 show their “longstanding commitment to the sommelier craft” - Star Wine List

2 weeks ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows

Star Wine List of the Year Switzerland 2025 was held in Zürich on Monday 19 May, with the highest honour going to the luxurious, lakeside Park Hotel Vitznau. Who else earned Gold Stars? Take a look at the full list of winners. This week saw Star Wine List of the Year’s first in-person awards event held solely for Switzerland, hosted by Founder and Publisher Krister Bengtsson at Chez Smith, in Zürich.
Launch! The wine guide to the Algarve with ambassador António Lopes

3 weeks ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows |Leonel Pereira

Star Wine List’s Portugal Ambassador is former sommelier turned writer and consultant, António Lopes. After joining the team in 2024, he is helping us to launch our first guide to the best wine places in the Algarve. Originally from Penacova, António Lopes cut his sommelier teeth in the Algarve, at Vila Vita Parc in Porches.
London’s Kathrine Larsen-Robert MS: sustainability isn’t a trend, it’s a mainstay

4 weeks ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows

A year since Master Sommelier Kathrine Larsen-Robert became Star Wine List’s London Ambassador, she is updating our guide for the third time by adding five Red Stars – and offering some tips on how to enjoy the English capital in the spring. Kathrine Larsen-Robert MS is currently Head of Wine, Europe at private members’ club 67 Pall Mall, in London’s St James’s.
The first Star Wine List of the Year Florida winners gave the judges “no easy task” – our 2025 Gold Stars - Star Wine List

4 weeks ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows

The very first Star Wine List of the Year competition in Florida was hosted by Founder and Publisher Krister Bengtsson on Thursday, 8 May. Tampa institution Bern’s Steak House forged ahead of the pack with three Gold Stars in a competition otherwise dominated by Miami, and that showed the “massive potential” of the region’s evolving wine scene, according to our judges.
Vienna leading the pack among Star Wine List of the Year Austria finalists 2025

1 month ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows

On 15 June 2025, we will name the best wine lists in Austria on the last stop of this season’s Star Wine List of the Year international tour before the grand finale. It is fitting that the Star Wine List of the Year International Final is being held in Vienna (on 16 June 2025), as the Austrian capital is proving the frontrunner in the country’s wine list battle, accounting for 13 out of our 33 finalists, as announced by the jury panel today.
Ambassador Erica Taylor on Cape Town’s collaborative spirit and where’s hot in Stellenbosch

1 month ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows

Erica Taylor joined the Star Wine List team in 2021 as Cape Town and Stellenbosch Ambassador, and today she adds 12 Red Stars to our guides, with fresh reviews of a further 17 venues. We asked her what wining and dining looks like across the Cape right now. America wine writer, judge and sommelier Erica Taylor adopted Cape Town as her home in 2017 and now reports on the best spots for wine lovers to hang out in, for Star Wine List.
New World dominates in the Star Wine List of the Year International Open 2025 – it all comes down to “the finest of details” - Star Wine List

1 month ago | starwinelist.com | Rachel Fellows

Spanning Poland, South Africa, Iceland, New Zealand, Portugal, the USA and many more, our International Open has been a hot contest between the finest wine list architects across the globe. Gold Stars have been awarded in nine categories via a virtual awards ceremony – meet the winners. The Star Wine List of the Year tour is visiting 18 territories this year, celebrating the best wine lists in each – and the teams that create them.