The Bay Tree Restaurant
84, Connaught Avenue
Frinton-on-Sea
Essex, CO13 9PT
Reservations: 01255 679898
Home Evening a la Carte Lunch Menu Party Menu Wine List
     
Fizz     | Rose Wine    
1. Robe d'Or Brut   15.00 | 10. Grenache Rose, Montgne Noire-Vin de Pays d'Oc 3.25 11.50
A crisp, clean sparkling wine with soft pear fruit flavours on the palate. Perfect as an aperitif or with light meat and fish dishes. Why not try it with fresh fruits?     | Delightfully fruity yet dry rose. An instant hiteither as a thirst quencher or food match. Perfect summer drinking or as an aperitif.    
2. Gobillard Brut Grande Réserve   30.00 |      
A family firm based in picturesque Hautvilliers. This is a wine of quality and character whose grapes come from Grand Cru vineyards only, rich and creamy with subtle hints of yeast, clean and refined.     | Red Wines    
      | 11. Rive Haute Merlot/Tannat, S.W. France 3.25 11.50
White Wines     | Rich red fruit flavours here to the fore with hints of vanilla cream make this a wine that is easy in style with no harsh edges.    
3. Rive Haute Colombard/Sauvignon, S.W. France 3.25 11.50 | 12. Syrah, Montagne Noire, Vin de Pays d'Oc 3.25 11.95
The bougqet is floral marked by the Colombard which contributes a blend of acacia and honeysuckle and is beautifully in contrast to the rich citrus fruit notes of the Sauvignon.     | Tremendous depth of colour heralds a wine full of warm, rich, spicy flavours that are so characteristic of Syrah    
4. Bernkasteler Kurfastlay, Germany 3.25 10.50 | 13. Shiraz/Cabernet, Tin Hat, Victoria-Australia 3.75 12.95
Excellent acidity here gives this German Reisling a lift with a slight spritz on the palate. Medium in style with subtle grapey flavours mingling with crisp apple flavours.     | With the excellent Tin Hat range one gets a real sense of grape variety. Sweet forest fruit notes of Shiraz combine with the cassis and currant of Cabernet. Has lovely balance and long, refined finish. Delicious! (Screwcap)    
5. Sauvignon Blanc, Montagne Noire-Vin de Pays d'Oc 3.25 11.95 | 14. Merlot, Rio Claro, Maipo Valley- Chile   14.50
Rich, mouthfilling fruit has hints of mango and oineapple. Flavours are lifted with ripe, racy acidity. Delicious, distinctive multi-purpose Sauvignon.     | Rich plum scented wine with warm plum and bramble flavours on the palate with subtle tannins.    
6. Chardonnay, Fantail, Victoria-Australia 3.75 12.95 | 15. Rioja Vina Salceda, Rioja-Spain   16.00
This lovelyAussie Chardonnay stands out for it's elegant, tropical peach and pear character. Terrific intensity on the palate with a long, mineral finish. Ideal with a range of seafood and classic chicken dishes.     | A full and rich, well structured Rioja. A wine with attractive plummy fruit and soft vanilla overtones.    
7. Pinot Grigio, Ca' Solare, Trentino-Italy   14.50 | 16. Hautes Cotes de Beaune, Nicolas Potel, Burgandy   16.50
Fresh clean nose with aromas of green apples, peaches and flowers. Soft white fruit flavours are full and rounded on the palate.     | Striking redcurrant aromas, fresh and lively on the palate with good structured tannins and a broad finish.    
8. Sauvignon Blanc, Lawson's Dry Hills-New Zealand   18.00 | Half Bottles  
Scents are heady and evocative with gooseberry and asparagus in the ascendancywith a twist of citrus peel in support.Flavours are dominated by grassy herbaceousness together with gooseberry and passionfruit.Open and pungent, this is rich, weighty, mouth-fillingSauvignon in the true Dry Hills style.     |

17. Chablis, Domaine de Vauroux, Burgandy
(As No.9)

  9.95
9. Chablis, Domaine de Vauroux-France   18.50 | 18. Rioja Tinto Crianza, Marques de Caceres-Spain   8.95
Everything you would expect from a Chablis, minerality with crisp pristine apple fruits     |

19. Gobillard Brut Grande Réserve
(As No. 1)

  16.00