Dee Lincoln Prime

The wine list at Dee Lincoln Prime lands with the confidence of a place that knows its audience — and its audience wants Napa Cabernet and French classics, served properly. Four hundred to six hundred selections is not a modest number, and the presence of two named sommeliers, Shawn Spiker and Richard Patino, signals this isn't a list assembled by a beverage distributor on autopilot. We're in a real wine program here.

California is the obvious anchor — Caymus, Silver Oak, Shafer Hillside Select, Stag's Leap, Far Niente, Duckhorn — the Napa greatest-hits board is fully stocked and then some. France holds its own with Château Margaux, Château Lynch-Bages, and Louis Jadot Burgundy in the mix, and Italy brings genuine depth with Gaja Barbaresco, Antinori Tignanello, and Sassicaia rounding out a trifecta that earned this list its Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence since 2022. The one gap worth noting: if you're hunting outside that California-France-Italy triangle, you may find the terrain thins out fast. But within those three regions, the depth is real.

Twenty to thirty-five by-the-glass options is a strong program for a steakhouse, and the quality of the underlying list suggests these aren't just the house pours propping up the margins. That said, we didn't find evidence of an active rotation or seasonal by-the-glass program — what's on the list tends to stay on the list. For a room full of prime beef, that's not necessarily a problem, but don't expect a lot of discovery in the glass pours.