Food and Drink Awards: Best Sommelier
Yvonne Cheung, Café Gray Deluxe
Café Gray Deluxe’s resident wine expert may not look like your typical sommelier but if Yvonne Cheung’s taught us one thing, it’s to never judge a book by its cover. Oh no wait, we lied. The young and talented Asian-American sommelier (who was formerly wine director at Napa Valley’s Carneros Inn) also taught us refreshing new food and tipple pairings and introduced cooler boutique bottles to our usual drinking list. More importantly, Cheung reminds us to enjoy wines just because they’re something worth appreciating. Did she just give us the best reason to drink ever? We think so.
49/F, The Upper House, 88 Queensway, Admiralty,
3968 1106; www.cafegrayhk.com. Daily 6.30am-10.30am, noon-2.30pm & 3.30pm-10.30pm.
Runner up
Sebastien Allano, Four Seasons Hong Kong
The Four Seasons’ soft-spoken Frenchman is one of our favourite sommeliers in town.
6/F, Four Seasons Hong Kong, 8 Finance St, Central,
3196 8860. Daily noon-2.30pm & 6pm-10.30pm.
Readers' Choice
Looks like you agreed with us here. Your picks for best sommelier turned out as a neck-to-neck competition between Yvonne Cheung of Café Gray Deluxe and The Four Seasons hotel’s Sebastien Allano. Spot on.
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