Chris McFall to Oversee Beverage Program on the Three Michelin-Starred Restaurant
October twenty first – Healdsburg, CA – Chef Kyle and Katina Connaughton are happy to announce Chris McFall has moved into a bigger function overseeing the complete beverage program as Wine Director at SingleThread. Most just lately the restaurant’s Head Sommelier, the achieved beverage skilled first gained recognition in his hometown of Austin, Texas when he was named Greatest New Sommelier by Wine & Spirits Journal in 2012 for his work at Paggi Home. McFall later managed and developed noteworthy packages at two-Michelin starred Lazy Bear in San Francisco previous to becoming a member of the SingleThread wine crew within the spring of 2020.
“I’m elated to proceed the legacy of the Beverage Program at SingleThread,” mentioned McFall. “It’s an honor to collaborate with the native and worldwide winemakers that encourage us.”
McFall will oversee SingleThread’s extremely curated, 150-plus web page wine record that features bottles from all over the world with a particular concentrate on Sonoma wines. A number of specialty sake alternatives from SingleThread’s cellar, together with a vibrant zero-proof beverage program, are actually below his purview as effectively. McFall labored with Little Saint Bar Director Matt Siegel and SingleThread Farm to develop the non-alcoholic initiative. In 2021, SingleThread obtained the coveted Wine Spectator Grand Award, which acknowledges extraordinary wine lists, cellars and repair throughout the globe – an award held by solely 97 eating places worldwide.
About SingleThread
SingleThread is a source-focused, farm-driven restaurant and inn that provides its diners and friends time- honored preparations of seasonally impressed delicacies, and a uniquely curated style of Sonoma Wine Nation. The idea was born out of Kyle and Katina Connaughton’s Southern California upbringing, in addition to their intensive worldwide travels and experiences dwelling and cooking overseas in each the UK and Japan. SingleThread is a three-Michelin starred restaurant whose basis is rooted in a wealth of Japanese ideas and traditions surrounding hospitality, meals tradition, and repair. The restaurant focuses on the idea of “omotenashi,” described as a heightened sense of hospitality and anticipation of a visitor’s each want. At SingleThread, the connection between farmer and chef is greater than a facet story; it’s the coronary heart of the expertise.
In October 2020, The Michelin Information honored SingleThread with a Inexperienced Star, its first yr of awarding eating places in the USA for his or her efforts on sustainability. In June 2021, its wine program obtained the Wine Spectator Grand Award. SingleThread is ranked #37 in 2021 and #50 in 2022 on the World’s 50 Greatest Restaurant Awards. SingleThread is a member of Relais & Chateaux, a world affiliation of unbiased luxurious lodges and eating places all over the world. For extra data, go to www.singlethreadfarms.com.
