Finding the perfect wine to complement a delicious meal at one of the excellent restaurants at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo hotel in Roppongi is much less of a daunting prospect since the hotel welcomed its newest sommelier, Manuel Rodrigues, earlier this year.
Born in Portugal, Rodrigues moved to France's Burgundy region as a child, where he worked alongside his vintner father, gaining an intimate understanding of what goes into making a great bottle of wine and providing the foundation for his future as a sommelier.
Thanks to stints in Dubai and Singapore before his arrival in Tokyo, Rodrigues is comfortable with recommending wines suited to a wide variety of tastes and is extremely careful to consider the best wine to meet diners' requests, rather than pushing the most expensive or best-known option.