Grassa Gramma

The wine list arrives and it reads like a love letter to Italy — heavy on Piemonte and Toscana, light on surprises, but earnest enough to take seriously. For a neighborhood Italian spot tucked into a strip mall in Louisville, the ambition here is real. It's not deep, but it's pointed.

The list leans hard into the Italian classics: Barolo from Ceretto, Barbaresco from Pio Cesare, Brunello from Antinori — all the canonical names are accounted for. There's a California thread running through as well, which feels like a concession to the crowd rather than a curatorial choice. The Rosso di Montalcino from Castiglion del Bosco and the La Spinetta Il Nero di Casanova show some genuine range within the Italian tier, hinting that whoever built this list knows their stuff. Gaps exist — no real southern Italian representation, no natural or orange wine presence — but what's here is coherent.

Eight to twelve options by the glass is a respectable spread for this kind of room, though the BTG program skews toward crowd-pleasing pours rather than anything that would make a wine nerd look up from their carbonara. Rotation doesn't appear to be a priority — this feels like a set-it-and-forget-it BTG program. That said, if the house pours are sourced with the same Italian focus as the bottle list, you're in decent shape.