Star Wine List, often called the Michelin guide for the wine world, returned to New York for its third annual wine list awards on 5 May 2025, hosted by Publisher Krister Bengtsson in Manhattan.
May 5, 2025 — Star Wine List of the Year New York covers restaurants and wine bars across the New York metropolitan area. The 2025 awards ceremony was held at Monterey restaurant in Midtown, where Gold Stars were presented in nine categories by Bengtsson and jury member Wanda Mann, who is also Star Wine List’s New York Ambassador.
Pascaline Lepeltier’s Chambers was the biggest winner of the event, taking Gold Stars for Sustainable Wine List, Best Long List and the competition’s highest honour, the Grand Prix. Last year’s Grand Prix winner, Eleven Madison Park came a close second, receiving Gold Stars for Best Austrian Wine List and Best By the Glass List – they have won the latter in all three editions of Star Wine List of the Year New York, making this a hat trick for Daniel Humm’s three-Michelin-starred restaurant. Other Gold Star recipients included two openings from 2024, Coqodaq and Chez Fifi, plus Koloman Restaurant and Ardesia Wine Bar.
“An ode to the diversity and rich cultures of the Empire State, New York’s lists embody the near-unlimited access to great wine which allows its sommeliers to create collections impossible in other parts of the world,” said judge Stephen Wong MW. He was joined on the jury panel by fellow sommeliers Paz Levinson (ASI Best Sommelier of the Americas 2015) and Salvatore Castano (ASI Best Sommelier of Europe and Africa 2021), in addition to wine writer and local expert Mann, who was in attendance on behalf of her judging colleagues.
The Star Wine List of the Year awards celebrate the greatest wine lists in the world – and the teams behind them – with events held across the globe. The 2024/’25 awards tour has included London, Paris, Tokyo and Barcelona, among other territories, with winners in the international categories qualifying for the Star Wine List of the Year International Final. In New York, all nine categories fell under the international classification, and so the winners are now invited to join their global cohort of Gold Star venues in Vienna this June, to see who will be named champions of champions at the final awards event of the season.
The winners
Grand Prix
The best list of the overall competition
Gold Star: Chambers, New York City
Best Long List, presented by Château d’Esclans
For wine lists with more than 600 references
Gold Star: Chambers, New York City
Best Medium-Sized List, presented by Domaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné
200-600 references
Gold Star: Koloman Restaurant, New York City
Best Short List, presented by Familia Torres
Fewer than 200 references
Gold Star: Ardesia Wine Bar, New York City
Best By the Glass List, presented by Maison Barrière
Gold Star: Eleven Madison Park, New York City
Best Sparkling Wine List, presented by Oddbird
Gold Star: Coqodaq, New York City
Best Newcomer List, presented by La Bouche du Roi
Gold Star: Chez Fifi, New York City
Sustainable Wine List, presented by Lingua Franca
Recognises a wine list that has put extra emphasis on the wine programme’s overall impact
Gold Star: Chambers, New York City
Best Austrian Wine List, presented by Austrian Wine
Gold Star: Eleven Madison Park, New York City
About Star Wine List
Star Wine List is the award-winning guide to great wine bars and wine restaurants around the world. It is available as an app and on www.starwinelist.com. It was launched in Stockholm (Sweden) in 2017, and is now live in more than 45 countries in the world. All venues are selected by top wine professionals.
