  Anthony Tahlier Photography Inc. Ocean Prime's Beverly Hills location is one of the brand's 15 Restaurant Award winners. Creating a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award–winning wine list is an accomplishment for a single restaurant, but offering high-quality wine experiences at numerous locations around the world presents exceptional challenges. We tip our hat to these 10 families of restaurants that have put together impressive wine lists in many cities across the U.S. and beyond. All 10 chains have reopened locations where you can dine now.
 Omar Marques/Getty Images It's hard to meet new people right now, but somms have made new acquaintances nonetheless. Most wine lovers relish a surprise, but few appreciate happy discoveries more than the somms who want to share them. We asked seven wine pros at Restaurant Award winners what unexpected bottles they've found themselves drinking while sheltering at home, or they've found their customers ordering in the early days of reopening. From sparkling Portuguese rosé to Chenin Blanc in small-town Texas, here's what they said.
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 8369 W. Main St., Marshall, Va. • Tel: (540) 364-8166 Fifty miles west of Washington, D.C., is first-time Restaurant Award winner Field & Main Restaurant. Ever since the coronavirus swept through the nation and shut restaurant doors in its wake, Field & Main has been offering its seasonally changing menu to-go, and selling baked goods, grocery staples, cocktails and wines through a retail operation. Co-owner Neal Wavra also hosts weekly virtual blind tastings on the restaurant's Facebook page. See the details! Straight Talk with Wine Spectator welcomes leaders of the restaurant and wine industries for live chats on Instagram, with past episodes featuring guests such as chefs José Andrés and Emeril Lagasse, restaurateur Danny Meyer and wine stars David Duncan and Joe Wagner. The series continues tonight at 7 p.m. ET with Tonya Pitts, wine director of Best of Award of Excellence winner One Market Restaurant in San Francisco. Then on Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. ET, we chat with Ben Aneff, managing partner at Tribeca Wine Merchants and president of the U.S. Wine Trade Alliance, which fights against wine tariffs on behalf of restaurants, retailers, producers and more. And stay tuned for a 3 p.m. ET edition on Sept. 3 with Sadie Family Wines winemaker Eben Sadie. See the full schedule, and tune in to Instagram to watch!
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