January Promotion – Harvey Nic's First Floor

Harvey Nichols First Floor restaurant is running an interesting promotion throughout the entire month of January. Basically every single wine on the wine list is available at a 50% discount off the prices listed below during the month – at lunch and at dinner – making the wine the same price you would pay for it in the Wine Shop. Now I’m a fan of Thomas Haughton’s savvy cooking and I wouldn’t mind partnering it with any of these, especially at half price
WHITE WINES
Heartland Viognier/Pinot Gris, Ben Glaetzer, South Australia 2006 36.00
Riesling ‘RK’ Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, Germany 2007 37.00
Terrazas de los Andes Reserva Chardonnay, Mendoza, Argentina 2007 43.50
Sancerre, Les Celliers St-Rombles, Andre Dezat, France 2007 47.50
Craggy Range Te Muna Road Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand 2006 55.00
Chablis Premier Cru, Beauroy, Alain Geoffroy, Burgundy 2005 59.50

RED WINES
Harvey Nichols Malbec, Catena Zapata, Mendoza, Argentina 2007 28.00
Valpolicella, Allegrini, Veneto, Italy 2007 31.50
Cairanne, Cotes-du-Rhone Villages, Domaine de L’Ameillaud 2006 35.00
Harvey Nichols Bourgogne Pinot Noir, Maréchal-Caillot, France 2006 36.00
Morgon, Domaine de la Chaponne, Laurent Guillet, Beaujolais 2007 40.00
La Montesa, Palacios Remondo, Rioja, Spain 2004 43.50
Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2005 47.00
Château Patache d’Aux, Cru Bourgeois, Bordeaux, France 2001 47.50

Loads of others on the very comprehensive and interesting list but these are my personal picks. I’d be quite tempted to Charles Melton’s Nine Popes at €40 (list €80) but the vintage on offer (2006) is miles too new to get the nuances and subtleties from this massive wine. The Craggy Range Te Muna Road gets my vote over Cloudy Bay, also on the list.
Seems to me this is the sort of creative thinking we need for the times that are in it. Well done, Harvey Nic’s.

Harvey Nichols First Floor, Dundrum Shopping Centre, Dublin Tel: 01 291 0488