Nine bottles, zero wasted picks
· Los Angeles · Cali-French / Tasting Menu · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · August 15, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Electric Bleu’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Nine wines. That's it. That's the list. At most restaurants that would be a reason to order a cocktail and move on — but Electric Bleu earns a second look because every single one of those nine bottles was clearly put there on purpose. This isn't a wine list that got lazy; it's one that got ruthlessly edited.
The list reads like a love letter to the Loire and Beaujolais with a California postscript. You've got Domaine de la Fessardière Muscadet 2018 anchoring the whites with quiet authority, while Lionel Osmin & Cie's 'Cami Salie' Jurançon Sec 2021 shows someone on this team is actually hunting for wines most diners have never seen. The Beaujolais contingent is genuinely impressive — Domaine de Bel Air Brouilly 'Briante' 2022 and Jean Marc Burgrau Morgon Côte du Py 2024 sitting side by side is the kind of cru Beaujolais double-down we rarely see at a tasting menu restaurant. Wonderland Project Gamay from Sonoma bridges the Old World obsession to local producers, and Château Pontac Monplaisir Pessac-Léognan Blanc 2021 is the Bordeaux blanc wildcard that ties the French theme together. Billecart-Salmon Rosé handles Champagne duties with class, though it's the expected flex on a list this tight.
By-the-glass specifics aren't confirmed from our data, and with a curated nine-bottle list in a tasting menu format, it's likely the program is built around bottle service matched to courses. If they are pouring by the glass, the Muscadet and the Jurançon Sec are the ones to ask for. Worth flagging to your server before you sit down.
Lionel Osmin & Cie 'Cami Salie' Jurançon Sec 2021 — null
Jurançon Sec from the Pyrenean foothills is one of the most undervalued white wine categories in France — grapefruity, taut, and genuinely interesting. Osmin's négociant work here is serious, and this bottle on a tasting menu list signals real intent. Wherever it's priced, it's almost certainly doing more work per dollar than the Billecart.
Jean Marc Burgrau Morgon Côte du Py 2024
Côte du Py is Morgon's most celebrated climat — volcanic soil, structured Gamay that actually ages. Burgrau isn't a household name outside natural wine circles, but this is the bottle on the list most likely to make a Burgundy drinker stop and reconsider their life choices. Order it and drink it with someone who thinks they don't like Beaujolais.
Billecart-Salmon Rosé
It's a great Champagne — genuinely. But it's also the safe, showy pick that appears on approximately ten thousand restaurant lists in Los Angeles. On a list this deliberately curated, it feels like the one concession to expectation. If you're at Electric Bleu, you're presumably here for something more interesting than the house Champagne at the Four Seasons.
Château Pontac Monplaisir Pessac-Léognan Blanc 2021 + Fish course (tasting menu)
Pessac-Léognan Blanc — Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon from the Graves — brings smoky, waxy texture that earns its place next to anything rich and seafood-adjacent. On a Cali-French tasting menu, the fish course is where this bottle clicks into place. It's doing things that a Napa Chardonnay simply can't.
The Bottom Line
Electric Bleu is playing a very specific game with a very short hand, and it mostly works. If you trust the kitchen on a tasting menu, extend that trust to the wine list — someone here is paying attention.
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Varietal Specific
Knowledgeable & Friendly
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Deep & Eclectic
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Small but Thoughtful
Fair
Basic Stemmed
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Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Small but Thoughtful
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Small but Thoughtful
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Plays It Safe
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Occasional
Acceptable
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