Ochagavia Silvestre 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon Chilean Red

I drank this wine in the Parlour restaurant at Canary Wharf with a business colleague. I was very impressed with its fruit character and the wine was well balanced and not overwhelmed by oak. It went down well with a Hamburger. You can buy this wine for about 13 pounds a bottle on the retail market and at just over 20 pounds in the restaurant it represented good value for money. This wine can compete on equal terms with French, Spanish, Italian and Californian wine. I recommend it for drinking with red meats and I am sure that it will improve with a few years of bottle ageing. It really should go down as a complement to food rather than swigging it back at a wine bar.

The restaurant was so so; the food and service were quite good and the waiters were polite. And they do not address you as "guys" which is egregious as far as I am concerned. The only problem with the restaurant is that the tables are too close to one another so it is not the place to go if you dabble in insider trading. Though, it is OK for a trade of Chilean red.