Restaurant Spotlight: De Vine Restaurant (Wine Spectator)

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Not far from Lviv, Ukraine, De Vine Restaurant offers an international wine list highlighting France, Bordeaux and Italy.

On a quiet, lakeside property in western Ukraine, about an hour-long drive from the city of Lviv, Edem Resort Medical & Spa Hotel goes beyond what you’d expect from a luxury resort. There are charming suites, diverse dining options and a state-of-the-art spa, as well as art exhibitions and immersive health treatments like a three-day “anti-stress” program. Edem’s Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winner, De Vine Restaurant, boasts a growing wine program of more than 350 selections. There are nearly 30 labels available by the glass, including 21 by Coravin. France, especially Bordeaux, is a big focus of the list, but wine director Yevhen Ivanov also emphasizes Italy and rounds out the offerings with regions like Greece, Israel, Austria and Switzerland. The hotel has even started experimenting with its own wine production, recently planting four test grape varieties on a small piece of land purchased in Freiburg, Germany. Ivanov hopes to eventually add these bottlings to De Vine’s list. The international program complements regional European dishes from chef Artur Tumanyan, such as smoked eel on cucumber carpaccio and minced turkey kebab with spinach and peanut-carrot cream.