DAMA

DAMA's wine list arrives looking like it dressed up for the room — and the room is genuinely stunning. But once you flip past the cocktail section and actually land on the wines, the energy deflates fast. This is a list that was assembled to not embarrass anyone, not to excite them.

The list leans on safe international crowd-pleasers: a Malbec from Mendoza, some Rioja Tempranillo, a Carmenère from Chile — all the Latin-adjacent hits you'd expect. There are flashes of personality, like a Txakoli from Getariako Txakolina and an Albariño from Rías Baixas, that suggest someone briefly cared. A Baja wine dinner event hints that Mexican wine could find a real home here, but those bottles don't seem to have made it onto the permanent list in any meaningful way. The gaps — no real depth in South American selections beyond the obvious, nothing adventurous from Canary Islands or Argentina outside Malbec — are hard to miss once you start looking.

The by-the-glass program runs somewhere in the 8–14 pour range, priced $14–$22, which sounds reasonable until you clock the underlying markups. There's no evidence of a rotating glass program or any curatorial effort — what you see is probably what you'll see next month too. For a cocktail-forward spot with this much Latin identity on the plate, the glass pours feel like an afterthought.