Public to choose wines for top London restaurant using Twitter

A top London restaurant is asking the public to choose wines for its list on twitter.

In what is thought to be a world-first, L’Anima will put its wine list to the public vote.

A panel of six experts including Decanter contributor Anthony Rose will taste the wines. The wines that divide the panel most will be thrown open to the public to decide. The most popular three wines will then win a place on the restaurant’s list.

Robert McIntosh, social media expert and consultant to the project told decanter.com, ‘I’m thrilled that a restaurant of the calibre of L’Anima recognises the potential of social media and is daring to try innovative projects to get their customers excited about wine in a new way.’

The tasting will take place on Monday 24 August and voting will be open on Tuesday and Wednesday on the restaurant’s website.

The Italian restaurant was named best newcomer at this year’s Tatler Louis Roederer awards.

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Written by Rebecca Gibb

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Rebecca Gibb MW is a wine journalist and editor who has also founded Bamboozled games, ‘the world’s first wine and spirit puzzle makers’. Having spent six years living in New Zealand, she has recently returned to her native north-east England. While in New Zealand, she became a Master of Wine, graduating top of her class and winning the Madame Bollinger medal for excellence in tasting. A former winner of both the UK’s young wine writer of the year and the Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Writer, her first book The Wines of New Zealand was published in 2018. She also runs wine events and has her own consultancy business The Drinks Project. She was a judge at the 2019 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).