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The list lands with the kind of confident thud you'd expect from a place that stocks both Chateau Petrus and Cleto Chiarli Lambrusco without blinking. This isn't a hotel restaurant phoning it in with a dozen safe Cabs and a token Pinot Grigio — someone actually built this thing with intention. The range from grower Champagne to Brunello to Provence rosé tells you immediately that the person curating this list drinks well and wants you to also.

The Old World bones are serious: François Carillon's Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru sits alongside Gaja's Pieve Santa Restituta Brunello, Chateau Cheval Blanc, and a Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Richebourg that exists mostly to remind you this is not Applebee's. The California side runs deep too — Kosta Browne, Quilceda Creek, Mayacamas, Ridge East Bench Zinfandel, and Vérité La Muse give you serious range without being a greatest-hits cash grab. The Champagne selection is a genuine strength: Marc Hébrart Special Club alongside Krug Grand Cuvée and Dom Pérignon means you're not stuck choosing between the Brut NV and the Brut NV. The one real gap is the Southern Hemisphere and anything remotely natural or low-intervention, but given the steakhouse context, that's a nitpick not a dealbreaker.

By-the-glass specifics aren't published prominently, which is a minor frustration for anyone walking in without a reservation and a budget for a full bottle of Sassicaia. A list this deep should be showing off more at the glass level — it's a missed opportunity to pull curious drinkers into something they'd never order off a bottle list. Given the sommelier presence, ask what's open; there's likely something worth drinking that didn't make the digital menu.