Benvenuto Restaurant

You're in Milford, Delaware — not exactly a city that announces itself as a wine destination — and then you open the list at Benvenuto and find Sassicaia and Brunello sitting right there. It's a genuine surprise, and a welcome one. Wine Spectator handed them a Best of Award of Excellence in 2025, and flipping through the list, you can see why.

The list runs 150 to 250 bottles and stays almost entirely in Italy's lane, which is absolutely the right call for a restaurant doing osso buco and homemade pasta. Piedmont shows up strong with Barolo producers anchoring the reds, and Tuscany brings the heavy hitters — Sassicaia, Tignanello, and Brunello di Montalcino for when you want to spend up. Chianti Classico Riserva and Amarone della Valpolicella round things out for those who don't want to go full trophy-wine mode. The gaps are real — non-Italian options are thin, and if you're hunting for white wine depth or anything from Campania or Sicily, you may come up short.

Twelve to twenty options by the glass is a respectable spread for a restaurant this size in this market, and prices land between $10 and $18 — honest money for what you're getting. We'd love to see more rotation and a broader style range by the glass, but what's here gets the job done without feeling like an afterthought.