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Summer Palace Iconic Wine Lunch – Hong Kong

April 29, 2022 by Jennifer Che

Summer Palace Hong Kong Shangri-La

More than 10 years ago I visited Summer Palace in Beijing. Once an imperial garden during the Qing Dynasty, the area is now a UNESCO heritage site.

“Summer Palace” here in Hong Kong is not a garden. Instead it is a high-end restaurant that still shares some of the former’s imperial grandeur. This Michelin-starred restaurant inside the Shangri-La serves refined Cantonese fare, shares a Master Sommelier with Petrus (upstairs), and regularly holds unique and interesting wine lunches and dinners.

Our friends invited us to one such wine lunch at Summer Palace last year.

As we rode up the elevator at the Shangri-La to Summer Palace, we couldn’t help but notice an awe-inspiring painting. This impressive wall mural, called The Great Motherland of China (大好河山), is the largest silk mural painting in the world. It is 16-stories high and it took 40 Chinese artists 6-months to complete it.

Summer Palace Wine Lunch

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
As we entered the room, we got a first look at the featured wines of the wine dinner. Wow.
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch

Master Sommelier Yohann Jousselin oversees the wine platform for all Shangri-La restaurants in Southeast Asia, and spends over half his time in Hong Kong. The Shangri-La group of restaurants regularly holds wine lunches and dinners, both at Summer Palace and also at Petrus, upstairs.

They come at different price points, from more casual Wine Lunches at the Lobster Bar (HKD888 per person) to the flagship Iconic Wine Experiences that can cost up anywhere between HKD25,000 to HKD$58,000 per person (the latter including a super rare Petrus 1947).

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch

The wine meals focus on different themes, and often provide opportunities to try older and rarer wines.

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch

Iconic Lunch Series

This particular wine lunch focused on wine from 6 different regions in France, including a blind wine. It was part of the Iconic Lunch series, and costs HKD$3988 per person.

Here’s a look at our meal!

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Champagne Dom Perignon P2, 2000

We began with a special 2000 Dom Perignon P2 (short for “Plénitude 2”). This aged champagne is deep in color and complex in flavor. Even though you normally wouldn’t decant a champagne, our sommelier recommended doing so for this wine.

A lovely way to start the meal.

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch

Summer Palace is known for its refined Cantonese fare.

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
We started with a lovely steamed fresh Boston Lobster served with egg white in bouillon. This first course came paired with Les Chalasses Vieilles Vignes Jean Francois Ganevat.
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Next was the signature baked stuffed crab shell paired with a Meursault 1er Cru, Charmes, Domaine des Comtes Lafon, Burgundy, 1990.
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
The third course was a stewed Pork Brisket with fresh yam prepared “Hangzhou Style”.
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
The pairing? Bourgueil, Domaine Breton, Les Perrières, Loire, 1989.
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Finally, our last course was steamed rice topped with diced air-dried meat and dried shrimp in a clay pot, essentially an upscale claypot rice paired with two different rare wines.

Blind Wine – 1960’s

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
The first was a “Blind Wine”, a secret wine whose identity was covered. It wasn’t until after we tasted (and tried guessing) the wine that the sommelier revealed the truth: a 1960’s Vinos Finos Rioja Vina Tondonia Cosecha de 1964. We were quite surprised, as we had never had such an old rioja before. It was surprisingly complex and flavorful despite its extremely old age.

1970’s Mouton Rothschild

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Our other wine was a Pauillac 1er Cru Classé, Château Mouton-Rothchild, Bordeaux, 1970.
We tried them side-by-side, a mystery “blind” wine from the 60’s and the Mouton-Rothchild from 1970, paired with the claypot rice.
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
At the end, we finished with a Magnum bottle of 1978 Crozes-Hermitage, Domaine de Thalabert, Maison Paul Jaboulet, Rhône.
Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch

Dessert

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch
Coffee & Petit Fours

The meal was lovely, but it was the unique wine pairings that really made this meal fun and special. Food was delicious, the service was excellent, and the overall lunch was relaxed and interesting.

Summer Palace Hong Kong Iconic Wine Lunch

I leave you with one more look at The Great Motherland of China (大好河山).

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