Bottega Ristorante

The wine list at Bottega lands like a confident handshake — California-forward but with real Italian bones and enough French depth to keep things interesting. You're in Yountville, so expectations are high, and the list earns them. Dave Grega's fingerprints are all over this thing in the best way.

Three to five hundred selections covering California, Italy, and France is exactly what you want from a Napa Valley Italian restaurant with Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence credentials. The California side runs deep — Caymus, Silver Oak, Stag's Leap, Duckhorn, Opus One, Ridge Monte Bello — all the heavy hitters accounted for. The Italian bench is equally serious: Gaja Barbaresco, Sassicaia, and Antinori Super Tuscans give the list genuine Old World credibility, not just token representation. Louis Jadot holds it down for Burgundy, though France feels like the third wheel here — present and appreciated, not the main event.

Fifteen to twenty-five pours by the glass in the $14–$22 range is a solid program for this neighborhood, and the Wednesday half-price wine night is one of the best deals in Yountville full stop. The glass list skews toward accessible crowd-pleasers, which makes sense for a lively trattoria floor, but don't expect the Gaja or the Ridge to show up in the pour lineup.