All-Italian, All-Glass, Surprisingly Few Bottles
Ponce City Market · Atlanta · Italian · Visit Website ↗
Updated April 2026
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · March 22, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Bellina Alimentari’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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The wine list at Bellina Alimentari is unapologetically Italian and laser-focused — 27 labels, almost all available by the glass, spanning the boot from Sicily to Friuli. It's a market-meets-enoteca situation, which means the list feels more curated grocery store than fine dining cellar, but in the best possible way. If you came here hoping for a Napa Cab or a Burgundy rouge, you're in the wrong place — and honestly, that's a compliment.
The list reads like a regional tour through lesser-known Italian grapes, with standouts like the Produttori di Manduria Verdeca 'Alice' from Puglia, the Cardedu Cannonau 'Bucce' from Sardinia, and a Sfera Verdeca Macerato that signals someone in the buying seat actually cares about what they're pouring. There's a dedicated Macerato section — a full orange wine category at a market restaurant in Atlanta is not something we see every day. The red section leans accessible with the Jasci Montepulciano and Frico Sangiovese Rosato doing the crowd-pleasing work, while the whites punch above their weight with picks like the Giovanni Rosso Arneis Roero DOC and Tombacco Pecorino. Gaps exist: no Barolo, no Brunello, nothing over $220 for the big-occasion spender, and the bottle program feels almost like an afterthought compared to the by-the-glass depth.
Twenty-six of twenty-seven labels available by the glass is a genuinely wild stat — basically the entire list is a glass program. Prices run $11–$19, which keeps this accessible without feeling like a gas station wine situation. The Lovisolo Moscato di Pavia Scarlet and the Lini Salamino Lambrusco Rosato give the pours real personality on the sparkling and rosé ends.
Librandi Greco Bianco Cirò DOC 2022 — $13/glass
Cirò Bianco from Calabria is criminally underrated in the US market — Librandi is the benchmark producer for this grape, and getting it at this price point by the glass is a genuine win. It's the kind of wine that makes you look smart at the table.
Sfera Verdeca Macerato
An orange wine at a market restaurant is unexpected enough, but a Verdeca — a Puglian white grape — done in skin-contact style is genuinely niche. Most people at Bellina walk right past it and grab the Pinot Grigio. Don't be those people.
Tormaresca Chardonnay 2024
Tormaresca makes solid, food-friendly wines, but a generic Puglia Chardonnay on a list this focused on indigenous Italian varieties feels like a concession to the nervous guest who 'only drinks Chardonnay.' With Arneis, Pecorino, and Greco Bianco on the same list, there's no reason to default here.
Cardedu Cannonau 'Bucce' 2020 + Salumi board
Cannonau is basically Grenache raised in Sardinia with a chip on its shoulder — earthy, a little rustic, with enough fruit to stand up to cured meats and aged cheese. The 'Bucce' is skin-fermented, adding grip and texture that cuts through the fat. It's the move.
The Bottom Line
Bellina Alimentari is the rare Italian market that doesn't treat wine as an afterthought — the by-the-glass program is genuinely impressive, the regional focus is tight and honest, and the prices won't make you wince. Send your curious friends here; skip it if they only drink Malbec.
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NAM Kitchen is doing something genuinely unexpected: running a thoughtful, fairly priced 68-label wine list inside a Vietnamese restaurant, anchored by a strong sparkling section and some legitimately food-smart white wine choices. If you're the kind of person who wants a real glass of wine with your bún bò Huế, this is worth knowing about.
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Ciao Bruto is running one of the smallest and most coherent wine lists in wine country, which is either audacious or brilliant — probably both. If you want a 200-label deep-dive, go somewhere else. If you want eight smart picks at prices that won't make you wince, this is the move in Healdsburg.
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Diavola earns its Wild Card badge because it's a wood-fired pizza joint that punches well above its weight on wine — sommelier on staff, regional focus, and a setting that practically demands you order a second glass. We can't give you the bottle-by-bottle breakdown until we get eyes on a current list, but the bones here are good enough to say: don't just order a beer and move on.
Small but Thoughtful
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Ca'Bianca is a genuinely lovely place to eat, and if the food lives up to its reputation for house-made pasta and classic Italian technique, a bottle of something from the list is absolutely worth ordering. We just can't tell you exactly which bottle to order yet — the wine program's specifics aren't publicly documented well enough for us to make a confident call. When in doubt, ask your server what's local and what they're excited about, and go from there.
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