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We’ve been coming to Circo (pronounced CHEER-co) since it opened in October of 1998. It was the first Bellagio restaurant we ever ate in, and by our estimate we’ve eaten here at least 50 times over the years.
The last time we paid for a meal was probably around 9-11.
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We told Chef Tom Moloney we were embarrassed for having taken so long to re-visit Aqua Knox. It had been at least four years since last we indulged in the superior swimmers they cook here, and our memories were nothing but good. In fact, it was a definitive Dover sole that cemented this place’s reputation in our minds as a first class fish cookery, but inexplicably, we had strolled past at least a hundred times on our way to David Burke, Valentino, B & B, Delmonico or Bouchon without stopping in for at least a nibble.
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There’s nothin’ like a wine unveiling (accompanied by first class food) to get our heart a pumpin’.
Truth be told, we weren’t all that excited by another celebrity wine label, until we tasted the big beefy California cab and the sleek, sophisticated sangiovese that Ole Blue Eyes’ kin have hand crafted alongside Wynn/Encore Wine Director Danielle Price.
For those of you who love that extracted, teeth-coating, plummy style of red wines, the Sinatra Family Estate “Come Fly With Me” Cabernet will fit your mood like Frank crooning a tune over a couple of martoonis at 2 am.
We at ELV preferred the more subtle charms of the Tuscan La Voce — a red wine that fit Theo Schoenegger’s food the way a Nelson Riddle arrangement did with you-know-who’s voice.
These wines won’t be cheap, but they will be at Sinatra whenever you’d like a swirl or a sniff, and we can attest that both vintages we tasted were a very good year.