In the five months Will Mountford has been the sommelier and wine director at Ink, he’s retooled the wine list to reflect his passion for natural wines. Building a list to parallel chef Michael Voltaggio’s highly experimental cuisine is quite a different exercise than it was at Mountford’s previous positions, with the Michael Mina Group in Glendale and at Spago in Las Vegas.
At Ink, Mountford says that he wants to have “the best wines from under-appreciated or obscure regions like Georgia, like Croatia, like Ribeira Sacra.” He’s a big fan of Beaujolais, too, because it has so many talented natural winemakers and because the wines pair so beautifully with a wide range of cuisines.