71Above Restaurant & Skylounge

You're on the 71st floor of a downtown LA skyscraper and the wine list arrives like it knows exactly where it is — thick, confident, and not apologizing for anything. The range runs from entry-level pours to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, which tells you immediately this place is playing a different game than the restaurant two floors below street level. Wine Spectator has handed them a Best of Award of Excellence every year since 2017, and the list earns it.

The 400-600 bottle list leans hard into its four pillars — Burgundy, broader France, California, and Italy — and the depth is real. You've got Louis Jadot alongside Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet, Kistler Vine Hill Chardonnay holding court next to Opus One, and Antinori Tignanello representing Tuscany with authority. The California section is particularly strong, stacking household names like Caymus Special Selection and Screaming Eagle next to more composed choices. Where the list thins out is anywhere outside those four lanes — if you're hunting New World outside California or anything from Spain or the Southern Hemisphere, you're mostly on your own.

Twenty to thirty-five options by the glass is a serious program, with pours running $16 to $45 — a range wide enough to accommodate a pre-dinner Chardonnay or a serious red to go with that short rib. The Wednesday half-price wine night is the real headline: at 50% off, some of those glass pours become genuinely excellent value in an otherwise premium-priced room. We'd love to see more rotation to keep regulars engaged, but the sheer volume of options makes this a by-the-glass program worth leaning into.