Dominic's Trattoria

The list opens like a well-worn Italian-American playbook — Chianti, Barolo, California Cabs, a few French bubbles for the anniversary crowd. It's not trying to surprise you, and it mostly doesn't. What it does do is cover the bases with enough confidence that you won't feel stranded.

Italy anchors the list the way it should in a trattoria — you'll find Villa Antinori holding down the Tuscan corner, and the Argentinian side gets a nod with the Alberti Malbec. California rolls in heavy with Caymus and Rombauer doing their crowd-pleasing thing, and France shows up mostly for the bubbly occasion — Veuve Clicquot, Dom Pérignon, Schramsberg. There's no deep dive into natural wine, no obscure Sicilian producers, no orange anything — this is a list built for the regulars who know what they like. The gap is anything adventurous or off the beaten path, which is fine for this room but limits the ceiling.

Fourteen options by the glass is a respectable count for a neighborhood trattoria, and the price ceiling of $9 is genuinely reasonable for the St. Louis market. The glass program skews toward the approachable end — don't expect anything rotating or esoteric here, but you won't be stuck with mystery Pinot Grigio either.