Brezza

Walk into Brezza and the wine list feels like a serious commitment — this isn't a hotel restaurant doing the bare minimum on bottles. The Italian focus is immediate and confident, with Piedmont and Tuscany anchoring a program that earned Wine Spectator's Best of Award of Excellence starting in 2022 and has kept it since. Named sommeliers Andre Powell and Brandon Tebbe are on the floor, and that alone tells you the restaurant actually cares about what's in your glass.

The list reads like a roll call of Italian royalty — Gaja, Giacomo Conterno, Bruno Giacosa in Piedmont; Antinori, Sassicaia, and Ornellaia flying the Tuscan flag alongside Brunello di Montalcino. These aren't just name-drops: having Conterno and Giacosa on the same list means someone is paying attention to both tradition and terroir. The depth in Barolo and Barbaresco alone puts most Italian restaurants in the country to shame, and the Super Tuscans round things out for guests who want power and prestige without committing to a study of Nebbiolo. If there's a gap, it's likely outside Italy — but that's a feature, not a bug.

Specific by-the-glass options and counts aren't publicly listed, but with two named sommeliers running the program and a kitchen built around housemade pasta and premier seafood, expect the glass pours to pull from the same Italian depth as the bottle list. We'd push the staff for a pour from Piedmont — even a regional Nebbiolo or Barbera d'Alba — rather than defaulting to whatever Pinot Grigio lands at the top of the menu. At a restaurant of this caliber, the BTG program should reward asking.