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True South Dining wins Wine Spectator Award

Wine cellar at The Rees Hotel, Queenstown.

The True South Dining Room at the Rees Hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand has been awarded the prestigious 2014 Award of Excellence by U.S. wine and hospitality magazine Wine Spectator.

Wine cellar at The Rees Hotel, Queenstown.

Award-winning wine cellar at The Rees Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand.

The internationally acclaimed Wine Spectator’s annual Excellence Awards recognise a wine list of  more than 100 quality wine selections that thematically match a restaurant’s cuisine. These famous French wines nestle with the best wines of Central Otago and New Zealand in the professionally-managed, temperature‐controlled wine cellar that services the hotel and restaurant’s Bordeau Wine Lounge.

Host to an exclusive library of Bordeaux Wines with vintages selected from all the great houses of Bordeaux, True South boasts wines from world-renown chateaux such as Latour, Margaux, Mouton Rothschild, Chateau d’Yquem, Cheval Blanc, Lafite and Haut Brion as well as vintages from the world famous Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Vosne-Romanée.

True South Dining wins Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2014