Spokane's Quiet Franco-Washington Wine Overachiever
South Perry · Spokane · French · Visit Website ↗
Updated June 2026
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · May 1, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Française’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Walking into Française on South Perry, you don't expect a wine list this serious. It's intimate and unhurried, the kind of room where the list feels curated rather than assembled. France and Washington share equal billing, and that dual focus immediately signals that someone here actually thought about this.
The list leans hard into the France-Washington axis and doesn't apologize for it. On the French side, you're getting Burgundy heavyweights like Drouhin and Louis Jadot alongside Bordeaux estates that matter — Château Pichon Baron and Château Lynch-Bages aren't filler picks. Rhône is covered through Chapoutier and Guigal, and Billecart-Salmon and Pol Roger anchor a respectable Champagne section. The Washington half is where it gets interesting: Cayuse, Leonetti Cellar, and Quilceda Creek for Cab, plus K Vintners and Gramercy Cellars for Syrah — that's a legitimate Pacific Northwest roster, not just a token local shelf.
Twelve to twenty pours is a healthy by-the-glass program for a room this size, and the $10–$18 range suggests they're not just defaulting to bulk-buy house wine. We'd want to see more rotation to keep regulars engaged, but what's here covers enough ground — French and Washington — that you can have a genuinely different experience glass to glass.
Gramercy Cellars Syrah — $45–$55
Gramercy punches well above its price point in Washington Syrah, and in a French bistro context it feels right at home — peppery, savory, and structured enough to hold up to anything on the menu.
K Vintners Syrah
Charles Smith's K Vintners label gets overshadowed by flashier Washington names, but this is serious Walla Walla Syrah with real Northern Rhône DNA. Most tables are ordering Cab — their loss.
Château Lynch-Bages
It's a great wine, but Lynch-Bages is on every fine dining list in America and retail pricing is widely known. Unless the markup is genuinely fair, you're paying a trophy tax. Check the vintage and run the math before you commit.
Billecart-Salmon Brut Réserve + French Bread
Yes, the bread. Billecart-Salmon's Brut Réserve is clean, precise, and toasty enough that it makes a simple thing taste extraordinary. Start here, order everything slowly.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Française is doing something genuinely rare for Spokane — running a wine list where France and Washington aren't in competition but in conversation. No sommelier on staff, no half-price gimmicks, just a thoughtful list in a good room. Send your friends here.
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