GranMonte in The Dot Magazine | From Fine Dining To Farm: The Story Of Thailand’s GranMonte Vineyard

In two award-winning heritage-inspired fine dining restaurants in the Thai capital, Potong and Nusara, wines from GranMonte Vineyard, part of the GranMonte Estate, in Isaan Province’s Khao Yai – a blushing rosé, and a full-bodied Syrah and Viognier blend – are served alongside the kind of New World and Old World wines you’d expect to taste.It shows the city’s sommeliers growing trust in the produce of the vineyard that officially only opened in 2009, which also means that it’s currently celebrating its 25th anniversary. 

Phuengthum Khathipphathee, the sommelier at Restaurant Potong, Bangkok – at #19 in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list 2023 – pours an easy-drinking red wine into the glass over a main course. Four kilometers away, Tam Chaisiri Tassanakajohn, the sommelier at Nusara – a heady #3 in the same Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list – does the same, only this one is an amber-hued rosé, to pair with an appetizer upstairs before the menu really begins in the dining room.

Remarkably, both wines are Thai, part of a growing global number of new-latitude wines, meaning wines from latitudes once seen unfit for viticulture, from. And both come from the same vineyard, in the GranMonte Estate, in Khao Yai.