Nine seats, one room, all Spain
The Strip · Las Vegas · Spanish · Visit Website ↗
Updated June 2026
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · April 17, 2026
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You walk through a glass door marked with a single letter into a nine-seat room with a steel bar, and the wine list lands in your hands like a love letter to the Iberian Peninsula. This is not a list built for the Vegas masses — it's built for the person who already knows what Pingus is and wants to drink it somewhere worthy. The intimacy of the space sets the tone: everything here is intentional, including what's in your glass.
The list runs 150-plus bottles and barely strays outside Spain, which is exactly the right call. You get the full spectrum — Rioja royalty like CVNE Imperial Gran Reserva and Muga Prado Enea sitting alongside Priorat heavyweights like Alvaro Palacios L'Ermita, with López de Heredia's Viña Tondonia anchoring the old-school traditionalist corner. Sherry gets serious treatment thanks to Lustau and Equipo Navazos, which is rare even in restaurants that claim to care about Spain. The one gap worth noting: outside a few Galician whites, the non-red Spanish categories feel thin relative to how deep the reds go.
With 15-25 options rotating through, the glass program is one of the better reasons to sit at the bar rather than commit to a bottle immediately. Gramona III Lustros Cava makes a strong case as your opening move — it's a sparkling wine that actually has something to say, not just fizz to fill the first ten minutes. Telmo Rodríguez bottlings tend to cycle through as well, giving you access to a producer who works across multiple Spanish regions without asking you to pick a lane.
CVNE Imperial Gran Reserva — $90
In the context of a tasting menu room on the Las Vegas Strip, finding a wine of this pedigree and age-worthiness at the lower end of the price range is about as good as it gets. Imperial Gran Reserva drinks well above its price point and holds its own against anything on this list.
Equipo Navazos Sherry
Most tables skip straight to the reds, but Equipo Navazos is one of the most exciting Sherry producers working today. In a room serving avant-garde Spanish cuisine, drinking Sherry isn't a quirky detour — it's the most honest pairing decision you can make.
Vega Sicilia Unico
It's one of the greatest wines in Spain, full stop — but at Vegas Strip markup on an already expensive bottle, you're paying a significant premium for the name. Unico deserves to be drunk, not performed. Save it for a night when the price feels earned, not inflated.
Gramona III Lustros Cava + Foie gras empanada with cotton candy pastry
The richness of foie gras needs something with acidity and bubbles to cut through it, and the playful cotton candy element calls for a wine with enough character to keep up without overwhelming the dish. Gramona's extended-aged Cava brings toasty depth and persistent fizz that threads the needle perfectly.
The Bottom Line
é is a Wild Card in the most literal sense — a nine-seat secret room inside a casino that takes Spanish wine more seriously than most dedicated wine bars. If you're eating here, you're already spending money; lean into the list and let Chris So point you somewhere unexpected.
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