Downtown LA's Serious Wine Destination in Leather Booths
Downtown Los Angeles · Los Angeles · Steak House · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed April 7, 2026
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The wine list at La Boucherie lands on the table with the confidence of a place that knows exactly what it's doing — this is not an afterthought program bolted onto a steakhouse. Between the dim lighting and the leather booths, you've got 400-plus bottles staring back at you, anchored by serious French and California heavy hitters. Wine Spectator has handed them a Best of Award of Excellence every year since 2018, and the list earns it.
France runs the show here, and it runs it well — Burgundy and Bordeaux are the backbone, with names like Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Leroy Gevrey-Chambertin, Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet, Château Pétrus, and Château Mouton Rothschild anchoring the cellar at the serious end. California holds its own with Screaming Eagle, Opus One, and Cayuse Vineyards Syrah from Washington adding a Pacific Northwest wildcard. Champagne is handled properly too — Krug Grande Cuvée and Salon Blanc de Blancs are on the list, which tells you something about the seriousness of whoever built this. The one gap: if you're hunting for natural wine or anything outside the classic canon, you're at the wrong place.
With 20-35 by-the-glass options, La Boucherie isn't skimping on pours — this is a range that actually lets you drink well without committing to a bottle. We'd expect the program to rotate with the seasons given the overall ambition of the list. Just don't expect anything boundary-pushing here; the glass program skews classic and crowd-pleasing, which, frankly, is exactly what you want when you're nursing a ribeye.
Sassicaia 2020 — $450
In a list where Pétrus runs $5,800 and Screaming Eagle hits $1,800, the Sassicaia at $450 is a relative anchor of sanity — a benchmark Super Tuscan with the structure to go toe-to-toe with the dry-aged ribeye, without requiring a second mortgage.
Cayuse Vineyards Syrah
Most people hunting this list will beeline for Burgundy or Bordeaux and completely sleep on the Cayuse. This Walla Walla Syrah is one of Washington's most compelling producers and it's criminally overlooked when it shares a menu with DRC. Don't be that person.
Krug Clos d'Ambonnay 2009
At $2,200, this is a bucket-list bottle that belongs in a quiet tasting room where you can actually focus on it — not a buzzy DTLA steakhouse where the table next to you is celebrating a promotion. The Krug Grande Cuvée does the job at a fraction of the price.
Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet + Bone Marrow
The richness of bone marrow needs something with enough acidity and minerality to cut through the fat without disappearing — Leflaive's Puligny handles that with precision. It's a counterintuitive call against a steakhouse starter, which is exactly why it works.
Wednesday — Half-price wine night every Wednesday — one of the better recurring deals in DTLA for drinking into the upper end of the list without the full sticker shock.
🔥 The Bottom Line
La Boucherie is the rare hotel restaurant wine program that earns its stripes on substance, not just optics — the list is deep, the sommeliers know their stuff, and Wednesday's half-price wine night makes it genuinely accessible. Markups at the trophy end are steep (Pétrus at $5,800 will not surprise you), but there are real finds here if you dig past the first page.
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Small but Thoughtful
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Solid Range
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Knowledgeable & Friendly
Set & Forget
Proper
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Deep & Eclectic
Steep
Varietal Specific
Knowledgeable & Friendly
Set & Forget
Proper
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Small but Thoughtful
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Knowledgeable & Friendly
Set & Forget
Proper
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Plays It Safe
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Proper
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