Element 112

You don't expect to flip open a wine list in Sylvania, Ohio and land on Picpoul de Pinet, Arneis, and Greek bottles before you've even found the Cabernet. Element 112 is clearly not building this list for the crowd that just wants a glass of Malbec and calls it a night. Whoever is curating this thing is paying attention.

The list runs 50 to 80 bottles and earns its stripes by leaning hard into regions most Toledo restaurants wouldn't dare touch — Priorat from Spain, Tannat, Roussanne, Viognier, Austrian whites, and actual Greek wine. France gets proper representation including Languedoc via Picpoul de Pinet, and Piedmont shows up with Arneis, which is a minor miracle in northwest Ohio. The gaps are real though: the New World section skews toward the safe and predictable crowd-pleasers (Caymus, Jordan, Rombauer, Duckhorn) that feel like they were added to keep the suburbs comfortable, and the markups on those bottles are notably punishing. Think of the list as two lists stitched together — an adventurous Old World half and a conventional California half — and you know which side to order from.

Ten to sixteen pours by the glass is a respectable spread for a restaurant of this size and market. We'd love to know how often the glass selections rotate and whether the Old World gems make it onto the BTG menu, but the volume of options suggests there's something here beyond the basic four. If you're not committing to a bottle, ask what's open from the French or Spanish side before defaulting to whatever Chardonnay they're pushing.