Three bottles. Zero apologies. All natural.
Kaimukī · Honolulu · Wine bar / small plates · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · August 17, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Kaimukī Storeroom’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Wingman Metrics
The wine list at Kaimukī Storeroom is exactly three bottles long. Before you panic, take a breath — because whoever is picking these three bottles is doing something very right. This is not a list built by committee or a corporate beverage director; it reads like someone's personal collection on a great week.
Three wines, three different countries, zero overlap in style: a skin-contact Georgian Rkatsiteli from Pheasant's Tears, a lo-fi Spanish red from 4 Monos, and an Italian natural red from Cirelli. That's Georgia, Spain, and Italy in a single rotation — and all three are legitimate producers with cult followings in the natural wine world. The range from $22 to $42 a bottle is refreshingly honest for Honolulu, where a captive island market typically invites markup abuse. There are obvious gaps (no white, no sparkling listed explicitly), but the intent here is clearly daily rotation over exhaustive selection.
Two pours by the glass, running $12–$14, which is fair for Hawaii and genuinely reasonable for the quality of producers on the list. We'd expect the rotation to shift with whatever three bottles are currently in play, so what you see today may not be what's pouring next week — which is either exciting or annoying depending on how much you hate surprises.
The Bottom Line
Kaimukī Storeroom is doing the bare minimum in quantity and the maximum in quality — three bottles, all bangers, prices that won't make you do sad math on your phone. If you're a natural wine person stuck in Honolulu wondering why every list is the same, come here first.
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