/public_content/features/articles/b/spotlight/posts/spotlight-mexico-cityFor a long time, fine dining in Mexico City meant fancy French restaurants. Restaurateurs would import big names from Europe for bumper fees; French wines became synonymous with good (and expensive) taste. But the local dining scene is undergoing steadyen-USTelligent Community 13https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/articles/b/spotlight/posts/spotlight-mexico-citySat, 17 Sep 2016 04:31:22 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:97b120d8-8a95-4930-9541-fb50a362ba7cPete Contaldi0<p>Great overdue article. L&#39;Osteria del Becco in Polancito has 15,000btls in a 2-story, all glass (floors, ceilings, walls), multi-room cellar of mostly Piedmont with some very cool Tuscany and Veneto as well. The reason why Spanish and Italian wines do so well is because of the typical Mexican ridiculous taxing structure that makes it easy and cheap to direct import ex-chateau from those countries as opposed to truck it in from Baja. The Intercontinental in Polanco has the largest cellar in the Americas. I won&#39;t say I haven&#39;t seen crazier bottlings in other, much smaller cellars, but the brick-lined &quot;cave&quot; under the hotel has to be an (American) football field long, packed floor to about 5ft high. Great International restaurant culture of discipline and service, and they do well when the government is laissez-faire.</p> <img src="https://www.guildsomm.com/aggbug?PostID=16629&AppID=322&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">