
Let’s raise a glass to the 2022 CultureMap Dallas Tastemaker Awards, our yearly celebration shining a light-weight on the city’s prime culinary expertise.

Dallas’ best meals & beverage pros and establishments have been nominated by a panel of judges consisting of previous CultureMap Tastemaker Award winners and neighborhood F&B gurus, in groups these kinds of as Neighborhood Restaurant of the 12 months, Bar of the Yr, Finest New Pizza, Bartender of the Calendar year, Brewery of the 12 months, Pastry Chef, and Mounting Star Chef.

You will find also the Finest New Restaurant of 2022, a bracket-type tournament that readers get to make a decision to vote, simply click below.

Winners will be disclosed at our Tastemaker Awards party on Could 12 at Manner Marketplace Gallery, emceed by comic CJ Starr, when attendees get to dine on bites from nominated places to eat and uncover out what the excitement is all about. (Tickets are on sale here.)

This entry pays tribute to the top wine plans in town. They include every thing from wine lists with a special target to locations with a potent by-the-glass system to locations with exceptional labels you won’t obtain any where else.

Listed here are our nominees for 2022 Wine System of the Yr:
Postino Deep Ellum

Phoenix-centered chain built its Dallas debut with this site in Deep Ellum which opened in 2021 with a menu of bites and shareable dishes. With about 30 possibilities, its wine listing is not big, but what is most notable is that every is available not only by the bottle but also by the glass.
Villa Azur Dallas

Glamorous cafe from Miami resides at the W Lodge in Victory Park with an extensive wine range and menu of French-Mediterranean food that is almost uncomplicated to get lost beneath the glitzy social gathering vibe. The wine list has huge bottles at massive charges, but its notable trait — maybe unsurprisingly, presented its whole occasion vibe — is its major collection of sparkling wines.
Monarch

Restaurant at the National making in downtown Dallas is a wooden-fired modern Italian thought imagined by Michelin chef Danny Grant and staff. The cafe is well-known for its classy house and expansive sights as very well as its pasta, steaks, and seafood — with a steakhouse-model wine record to match. If you are hunting to splurge on a showpiece bottle, this is the location to do it in 2022.
Homewood Dallas

Extremely rated cafe from acclaimed chef Matt McCallister has a magic formula weapon in its wine system, overseen by sommelier Lauren Loiselle which quite a few wine enthusiasts say is the ideal in city. It’s identified for its selection, from all-natural wines to great wines from non-evident locations these as New York, as perfectly as the way the alternatives pair so agreeably with the menu. It really is also dynamic and ever-transforming, with new labels consistently rotated in.
Sister

Buzzy Italian on Greenville Avenue offers a one-of-a-type wine list with Italian treasures that make for synchronous pairing with the food items. That contains wines from Puglia, Piedmont, Sicily, and Tuscany, with a number of surprises thrown in these as a merlot from Napa Valley. The by-the-glass range is plentiful, from Drappier Champagne from France to vermentino from Tuscany to sangiovese by Casanova di Neri Irrosso, accessibly priced from $11 to $24 for every glass.
Community Cellar

Bishop Arts wine store and wine bar presents wine by the glass, flights, tastings, charcuterie, and treats, additionally a wine club and normal wines. Their items contains definitely particular bottles and the prices are not outrageous, with a vast majority of options in the $20-$25 array. They have pretty a couple of glowing possibilities ranging from Cava to Frizzante, subtly fizzy pinks and reds from Italy.
Trova Wine + Market

Cozy, attractive wine store and bar characteristics wines from about the environment, as nicely as a modest menu of regional and artisanal food items stuffs. They are continuously adding intriguing wines from about the world this sort of as Aperture Chenin Blanc, from the North Coastline of San Francisco Bay, vivid with notes of passion fruit, nectarines, and honeysuckle, and accessible not only by the bottle, but also by the glass.
Boulevardier

Oak Cliff restaurant comes from great wine stock: It can be a sibling to Veritas Wine Area, which gained the 2021 Tastemaker Award for Ideal Wine System, and entrepreneurs Brooks and Bradley Anderson are oenophiles who seek out unheard of labels at a wide range of price tag details. Boulevardier has 18 by-the-glass selections a well as a distinctive segment of restricted bottles these types of as the 2016 Alsace Grand Cru Riesling by Domaine Paul Blanck and the 2015 Napa Valley Opus 1 proprietary crimson.
Clink Wine Bar

Flower Mound resident and sommelier Laura Black opened this wine-centric location in 2020 to celebrate the community element of wine, something to be shared with family members or mates even though making the most of moments massive and modest. Clink’s strategy to wine is really consumer-pleasant with 10 wines on faucet, as well as 11 wine flights discovered by terms these types of as “Go Significant and Daring” and “Exciting Whites.” The foodstuff menu is totally supportive with charcuterie boards, flatbreads, and snacks.
Penned By The Seasons

Great-eating chef-driven restaurant in Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts serves market-driven dishes using seasonal components. The wine range is very carefully built, as well, with lots of natural wines and boutique solutions this kind of as Clovis Cotes Du Rhône, a biodynamic French Southern Rhône blend made by a fifth-generation father & son that’s a gentle-medium human body vino with shiny pink fruit expressions of cherry, raspberry, pomegranate & purple currant.