Dim Sum Hall Hiding a Surprisingly Global Pour
Downtown / Maple Avenue area · White Plains · Cantonese, Dim Sum, Seafood · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed July 18, 2026 · How we review
RagingWine reviewed Aberdeen Seafood and Dim Sum’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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You walk into a buzzing Cantonese banquet hall — lazy Susans spinning, steam carts rolling, Cantonese being spoken at full volume — and the last thing you expect is a wine list that includes Musar Jeune and Nyetimber. Yet here we are. The list is short, but whoever put it together was paying attention.
Eighteen labels isn't a lot, but the picks are genuinely interesting for a dim sum house in Westchester. You've got a Bolney Lychgate Bacchus from England sitting next to an Entreflores Albariño from Rías Baixas and Musar Jeune from Lebanon — this is not the list of a restaurant that ordered off the default distributor catalog. The white-heavy tilt makes sense given the seafood and dim sum focus, and the Dega Line Pecorino Organic adds a natural-leaning nod that feels current. The reds are thinner — Domaine du Pellehaut Rouge, a Merlot, a Malbec — but nobody's ordering Cab with shrimp dumplings anyway.
Eight pours by the glass is generous for a list this size, which means most of the interesting bottles are accessible without committing to a full pour. The Picpoul de Pinet and the Albariño both appear to be available by the glass, which is exactly right for this food. Rotation looks static — no evidence of a seasonal glass program — but the standing lineup punches above its weight.
Villa Blanche Picpoul de Pinet — £9/glass
Crisp, saline, high-acid Picpoul is basically built for steamed seafood and delicate dim sum. At this price point, it's the most food-friendly glass on the list and one of the few wines that actively makes the meal better.
Musar Jeune Red
A Lebanese blend from Château Musar's younger-drinking line at a place known for roast meats and live seafood — nobody at the table is going to order this, and that's a mistake. It's earthy, a little funky, and has the structure to hold up to Cantonese roast duck without steamrolling the soy and five-spice.
Champagne Castelnau Brut NV
At £72-£75 a bottle, the markup here is doing the heavy lifting. Castelnau is a perfectly fine cooperative Champagne, but it's not a special-occasion bottle at this price — especially when Nyetimber is sitting right next to it for the same money and offering a more interesting story.
Entreflores Albariño Rías Baixas + Live steamed whole fish
Albariño's natural salinity and stone fruit brightness mirror the clean, oceanic flavors of a whole steamed fish finished with ginger and scallion oil. It's the textbook match, and Aberdeen actually has both the wine and the dish to pull it off.
The Bottom Line
Aberdeen is a Wild Card in the best sense — a traditional dim sum hall that somehow assembled a wine list worth reading twice. The markups aren't friendly and the staff isn't going to walk you through the Pecorino Organic, but the picks are there if you know what to grab.
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