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The 2022 Global Winner of Best Value Wine List in the World is The Turtle Enoteca, LTD Central Texas restaurant and wine bar, The Turtle Enoteca LTD., wins World's Best Value Wine List 2022 in global competition. BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, USA, September 26, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Lat month on www.worldoffinewine.com the winners of the World's Best Wine Lists 2022 were announced. Since its inception in 2014, World?s Best Wine Lists finds and honors the best places in the world to drink wine. Those places are hugely varied. In the words of Francis Percival?who, as well as being The World of Fine Wine's food editor and an ever-present member of the WBWL judging panel, was the host of the 2022 awards ceremony in London earlier this month?we want to "celebrate the establishments who help bring us expertly curated wine lists of all shapes and sizes." The Turtle Enoteca is certainly one of the more remote and less known establishments amongst the winners and the only global winner in Texas. The Turtle Enoteca LTD. was declared The Best Value Wine List In The World. As World of Fine Wine editor and chair of the WBWL judging panel Neil Beckett put it as he introduced the awards ceremony at London's Glaziers Hall, "in another year that has seen so many more sad losses, it is all the more inspiring and uplifting to find how many establishments of all kinds have managed to adapt and to survive, and whose wine offerings?representing so much accumulated experience, expertise, promise, pleasure, and value?should help them, and all of us, look forward to better times." The Turtle Enoteca and Restaurant is situated in the city of Brownwood in the geographic center of Texas, a day or weekend trip for most Texans. Owned by the multi-faceted Mary Stanley and architect David Stanley. Great attention is dedicated to the excellent wine list which debuted in the World of Fine Wines best wine lists awards in 2017 Judges evaluated over 4,500 wine lists in 2016, and just over 800 wine lists were winners of a one, two, or three-star award. Claiming a two-star award in its first appearance and every year thereafter is evidence of The Turtle Enoteca's high caliber. Judges commented that the wine list was ?clever and consumer-friendly? and includes by-the-glass options that cover a variety of wine regions such as Austria (both red and white wines), Chianti, Rioja, Mendoza, and Australia. The range is notable, considering there are twenty by-the-glass pours for red and white wine. The Turtle Restaurant received a partnership award from the Rioja D.O.Ca in in 2014 in appreciation of promoting Rioja wines to their patrons which they love to do. The list is curated to reflect a high quality to price ratio. The remainder of the list follows a similar pattern with a primary interest in Italy, Spain, and South America. The Turtle tends to focus on lesser-known grapes and regions which are underappreciated by the public like the Canary Island. for inspiring and uplifting to find how many establishments of all kinds.... whose wine offerings?representing experience, expertise, promise, pleasure, and value help us look forward to better times? Neil Beckett The list evolves along with tastes and available suppliers and of course menu demands. At the Turtle, they cherish delicious food and good conversation; their key ingredients to happiness. Woven into their ethos is a desire for good wines that echo its terroir to share with their guests. The Turtle Restaurant is known for its eclectic seasonally changing menu. Focused on flavor and fresh ingredients you may fine hand made ramen with lion?s mane and jackfruit ?crab cakes?, pastas of all kinds are made in house. Appetizers cover a range of empanadas and potstickers and classic arancini which would make detective Montalbano proud. World heritage dishes include Piemontese beef peppercorn steak, San Saba pecan crusted chicken breast with honey butter sauce, bulgogi with sushi rice cakes and the famous Oklahoma burger, from street food to old school classics. Mary Stanley is more than the owner and wine buyer for both the Turtle Enoteca and Restaurant. She is the pasta maker, gelato artisan, and chocolatier for the Turtle Restaurant, Gelateria, and Enoteca. Mary Stanley The Turtle enoteca LTD +1 325-646-8200 mary@theturtlerestaurant.com Visit us on social media: Facebook Twitter Other
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The Turtle Restaurant is experimenting with bringing you food, wine AND song. Turtle Restaurant and Enoteca now features a random nearly monthly series of performances by original acoustic singer/song writers. We're about paying attention to the stories and the music and connecting you directly to the musician. We offer a 30 seat intimate smoke free venue. When weather and performance style permits we have an outdoor patio seating about 65. The Enoteca opens at 5:00, the restaurant opens at 6:00. The performance starts at 8:00 in the Candle Room. No food or drink service during the concert in The Candle Room out of respect for the performer. Two up coming concerts feature Eric Taylor - Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 8:00 pm and Melissa Greener - Saturday, March 10, 2012 also at 8:00 pm. Music is part of a good slow life.