Pizza joint hiding a serious wine nerd list
Fairfax · Los Angeles · Italian / Pizza · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · August 14, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Jon & Vinny's Fairfax’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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You walk in expecting a crowd-pleasing pizza list — Montepulciano, maybe a Chianti — and instead get hit with Corsican whites, Austrian field blends, and Burgundy premiers crus sitting next to a $22 volcanic Campanian red. This is not that list. Whoever built this had opinions, and we're here for it.
Fifty labels sounds modest until you start reading them. There's genuine range here: natural-leaning Italian oddities like the Agnanum Sabbia Vulcanica Vino Rosso and Angiolino Maule's Masieri Bianco sit alongside serious Burgundy from Benjamin Leroux and Berthaut-Gerbet, Basque-country Artadi, Baja's Bichi, and even a fizzy Glera from Bisson for the table that can't commit to still wine. The Burgundy section alone — with two Leroux bottles and two Fixin premier crus from Berthaut-Gerbet — would be at home in a dedicated wine bar. The Beaujolais and Loire selections are equally sharp, and the list skews heavily old-world without ignoring California entirely (Brij's SLO Coast Chardonnay earns its seat).
By-the-glass specifics weren't available during our visit, which is honestly the one real frustration here — a list this interesting deserves a strong glass program to match. If they're pouring even a fraction of what's on the bottle list by the glass, you should be asking your server what's open. Don't sleep on it.
Agnanum Sabbia Vulcanica Vino Rosso 2023 — $22
Agnanum farms ancient Piedirosso vines on volcanic soils on the slopes of Vesuvius. This wine is the kind of thing you'd pay $45 for at a wine bar — mineral, earthy, and electric — and it's $22 here. Order it without thinking.
Berthaut-Gerbet Les Clos Fixin 2023
Fixin is Burgundy's perpetually overlooked northern neighbor, which means premier cru bottles from a producer this serious get priced like village wine. Most tables at a pizza spot will walk right past it. Their loss.
Benjamin Leroux 1er Cru La Piece Sous Le Bois Meursault 2021
Leroux is a fantastic producer and this is a real wine, but $280 for a Meursault at a casual Italian-American spot is a tough ask — especially when there are so many compelling options on this list under $100. Save the big Burg spend for a table that's actually set up to give it the attention it deserves.
Bisson Glera Vino Frizzante 2024 + Margherita pizza
A lightly sparkling, low-intervention Glera is basically built for a hot, cheese-pulling slice. The bubbles cut the fat, the fruit stays out of the way, and the whole thing stays effortless. It's the move.
The Bottom Line
Jon & Vinny's is doing something genuinely unusual: a wine list with real curatorial vision at a place where you're also ordering garlic bread. Send your wine-curious friends here and tell them to ignore the price anchors and dig into the $22–$60 range — that's where this list really earns it.
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