Eleven Eleven Mississippi

The wine list at Eleven Eleven Mississippi arrives looking as polished as the restored brick walls around you — confident, well-curated, and just a little full of itself. California and Tuscany anchor the whole thing, which tracks perfectly with a restaurant that basically built its identity around those two regions. At a glance it feels like a serious program, but dig in and some of the pricing starts to raise an eyebrow.

The list does its job well: California Cabs and Chardonnays dominate, Tuscany holds it down on the Italian side, and there are credible detours into Champagne, Oregon, Argentina, and Germany to keep things from feeling like a Napa theme park. The Argiano 2019 Brunello di Montalcino is a legitimate bottle and a smart anchor for the Italian section, and the Paolo Scavino Bricco Ambrogio shows someone here knows their Barolo producers. That said, the list leans heavily toward crowd-pleasing names — Caymus, Veuve Clicquot, Rombauer — and there's not much effort to go beyond the comfort zone or introduce guests to something they couldn't find at the airport wine bar. The Champagne section in particular reads like a greatest-hits compilation marked up well past what it should be.

Eighteen-plus options by the glass is a genuinely solid count for St. Louis, and the range covers enough ground that most tables will find something. The Moët & Chandon Impérial Brut by the 187ml split at $26 is a cute touch for celebratory moments, though at that per-ounce rate you're essentially buying the occasion, not the wine. We'd like to see more rotation and a few less-expected pours in the glass lineup — right now it mirrors the bottle list's play-it-safe tendencies.