Popular FX hospitality-focused drama The Bear is returning to screens next month and questions have been asked about the wines that should appear on the restaurant featured in the show. The drama, which features Jeremy Allen White as head chef Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto, Ebon Moss-Bacharach as restaurant manager Richie Jerimovich and Ayo Edebiri as sous-chef Sydney Adamu, is mainly focused on the mountainous task of turning a much-loved but tired sandwich joint in Chicago into a Michelin-starred restaurant. Despite the importance of wine to fine dining, and it being featured in the background of several critical episodes — including one of the most important called “Forks” in season two — it wasn’t until the final episode of last season, manager Richie mentioned a ‘cru Beaujolais’. This caused an amusing and rather fantastic debate on the popular reddit thread — r/wine — with a user suggesting a list of bottles that should appear in the restaurant, based on the characters, location and ‘type’ of restaurant that ‘The Bear’ is trying to be.
Suggestions included a mixture of Old World and New World wines, including Sicily’s Frank Cornelissen “MunJebel FM”, Morgon’s Jean Foillard “3.14”, an Evening Land “La Source” Pinot Noir from Oregon’s Willamette Valley, and also a Domaine de La Cote “La Cote” Pinot Noir, Sta. Rita Hills. In line with its discerning status, the user also thought wines from Macedonia, Alto Adige and a Raul Perez “Sketch” Albarino were also mentioned. Reddit users responded to the ‘dream list’ by
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