There is no better couple than spring and sparkle. Red wine is already tired of the long and snowy winter, cocktails await summer time. Therefore, we are preparing a stylish spring look and set out to conquer the verandas of the capital (not only) with a glass of sparkling wine. Moreover, there are many places in Moscow for this.
Anya Baturina, columnist for The Fashion Vibes, author of the Gastrology Telegram channel
The Fashion Vibes columnist Anya Baturina went to investigate and found out where the largest selection of sparkling wines is in the capital. Here are seven places we plan to go next Friday (and maybe Wednesday).
Wine and Crab
Great news: This restaurant has the largest selection of champagne by the glass, including rare varieties. The Wine&Crab wine list includes more than 300 types of “bubbles” from Champagne alone. So you finally have every chance to figure out what you like more – brut or rose.
The restaurant has received Michelin recommendations for its wine list. And in social networks, the restaurant team often mentions the rare and sparkling wines and wineries where it is produced. So you can come prepared for the tasting in advance.
BUONO
A glass of sparkling wine with the best view of Moscow is as easy as shelling out pears! Climb to the 29th floor of one of the seven skyscrapers – Radisson Collection Hotel Moscow – and go up to the BUONO restaurant, where you can even go to an open observation deck. The selection of sparkling and champagne is so large that there is no point even starting to list it, once you come and see the menu (and this view) with your own eyes. By the way, this is the only restaurant where the famous French champagne house KRUG officially awarded the title of KRUG Embassy in Russia.
Beer and Brut
Perhaps the perfect combination of different types of bubbles under one roof – sparkling and craft beer. About 60 beers are poured into the sparkling bar (there is even “champagne beer”), the wine list is not only white, red and sparkling, but also each subcategory “famous producers and win-win options”, “rare, unique, manual”, “ classic champagne”. And all this in an old mansion on Pokrovka, in an interior reminiscent of a neighborhood, where there are two drinks included in the name – a bar counter and a piano (although in the toilet). By the way, since the beginning of April, the “Wine by the River” campaign has been held here – the price for a glass starts from only 350 rubles.
Great Wine Freaks
This bar is top-notch for organic and biodynamic, with rare wines, samples from small family-owned wineries, and vintage vintages from major wine regions. So you can compare whether there is a perlage difference between classic and organic sparkling wines. The map fascinates with the number of positions, they say that almost every second bottle opened in a bar is champagne.
“Sparkling”
Gastrobar “Igristy” is part of the “Wine Souks” family, but as the name suggests, the emphasis is on different types of sparkling wine. Petnates and cava, cream, prosecco, champagne fermented here and on the shelves in bottles. This bar has no wine list, all bottles are served in the lounge and their prices are printed on them. There are also brunches with unlimited sparkling wine – information about them appears on the social networks of the bar.
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If you find yourself in Khamovniki, be sure to stop by. The restaurant has an excellent wine list, and a real wine club has recently appeared, where tastings with experts take place. So you can drink consciously and culturally enlightened. Also, recently a new chef, Viktor Massov, headed the project’s kitchen. Since childhood, she dreamed of learning how to cook deliciously for her mother, who did not have enough time to find various dishes at home. We haven’t heard such a sweet story in a long time – chin-chin.
Champ Bistro and champagne bar
The most anticipated opening this spring is Champ (short for Champagne, as you might guess). A new place from Touche owner Larisa Mamedova and chef Taras Kiriyenko will soon appear on Neglinnaya, promising a wide variety of sparkling wines and noisy parties. The restaurant will be housed in a beautiful historic mansion with restored interiors – walls, wooden windows and six meter high ceilings. Vanya Vasiliev (who has been called the most cheerful dj in Moscow) has become the artistic director of the new champagne bar, so expect something eccentric, cheerful and very drunk.
Source: People Talk
