71Above

When a restaurant sits on the 71st floor of a Downtown LA skyscraper, you expect the wine list to match the altitude — and at roughly 1,350 labels, it does. The sheer scale is immediately impressive, and a dedicated sommelier on staff signals this isn't just a list padded out to look good. The room is special-occasion serious, and the wine program mostly keeps pace.

Dig in and the list earns its heft. There's genuine international breadth here, but the most interesting moves are closer to home — Santa Barbara County and the Central Coast get meaningful representation, which is exactly the kind of regional pride a Los Angeles restaurant should be showing. Champagne selections are plentiful and specific, with grower producers like J-M Sélèque appearing alongside the standard prestige cuvées. The depth is real, though the list skews heavily toward crowd-pleasing California Cabernet territory when you get to the higher price points.

Twenty to twenty-five options by the glass is a genuinely strong program, and the $18–$35 range reflects the upscale room without feeling punitive at the lower end. The inclusion of J-M Sélèque Extra Brut Soliste 1er Cru Champagne as a pairing pour shows the glass program has some real thought behind it — that's not a wine most restaurants bother stocking, let alone pouring by the glass. Rotation details aren't well-documented publicly, but the sommelier presence suggests it's curated rather than static.