Wednesday Bottles Half Off — Come Hungry
Downtown · West Palm Beach · Ranch-to-table, farm-to-table American steakhouse · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed July 5, 2026
Wingman Metrics
Walking into Fern, the wine list reads like a greatest-hits album of California wine — Silver Oak, Cakebread, Far Niente, Duckhorn. It's a crowd-pleaser lineup that will feel instantly comfortable to most diners, even if it won't surprise anyone who's been paying attention since 2010. The ranch-to-table identity is compelling, but the wine list hasn't quite caught up to the kitchen's adventurous spirit.
The list leans hard into Napa and the broader California New World canon, with Veuve Clicquot doing the heavy lifting on the Champagne side. There are a few interesting detours — the Flowers Pinot Noir nods toward Sonoma Coast, and the Greppicaia Superiore from Fattoria La Regola brings a welcome Italian curveball that most tables will ignore and shouldn't. Old World depth is thin, and if you're hunting for natural wines or anything from outside the predictable California-France axis, you're not finding it here. That said, these are crowd-pleasing producers for a reason, and in a steakhouse context, they do their job.
The by-the-glass program runs $12–$24 and features some genuinely impressive pours — Darioush Chardonnay and Flowers Pinot Noir by the glass are not wines most restaurants bother to open up. Wednesday's half-price bottle deal applies to the full bottle list, which dramatically shifts the value calculus if you can plan your week around it.
Greppicaia Superiore (Fattoria La Regola) — $36/glass
At roughly 39% over retail and poured by the glass, this Tuscan red is the list's lone old-world outlier and a genuine bargain relative to everything else on the menu. Most tables won't order it, which is their loss.
Flowers Pinot Noir
Sonoma Coast Pinot at this quality level rarely makes a by-the-glass list. Flowers is serious wine — cool-climate, restrained, and a genuine alternative to the Napa-heavy everything-else on this list. Worth ordering even before you look at the food.
Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne
Veuve is a fine Champagne, but it's also one of the most aggressively marked-up bottles in the country. You're paying a premium for the yellow label recognition here. Unless someone at the table specifically asked for it by name, there's almost always a better use of that money.
Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon + Prime dry-aged bavette steak frites with truffle crema
Silver Oak's Alexander Valley Cab is built for exactly this moment — the oak structure and dark fruit cut through the bavette's rich dry-aged fat, and the truffle crema flatters the wine's earthier notes without fighting them. This is the obvious call, and obvious is sometimes correct.
Wednesday — Half off all wine bottles on Wednesdays, per multiple reviewer reports. Dramatically improves the value equation on an otherwise steep list.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Fern is a steakhouse wine list that plays it safe with quality producers, charges steep glass prices, and then redeems itself completely with Wednesday half-price bottles — if you can hit a Wednesday, this becomes a very different conversation. Come for the wagyu, stay for the Flowers Pinot, and set a calendar reminder.
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