La Grande Boucherie

The wine list at La Grande Boucherie feels exactly like the room it lives in — polished, French-leaning, and dressed to impress. At 116 labels with 22 by-the-glass options, it's not a short menu, and the heavy Champagne and Loire presence signals they know their audience. First glance gives you confidence; second glance makes you wonder who's paying for all that real estate on the margins.

The list leans hard into France — Champagne, Loire, Rhône, Alsace, Burgundy — and does it with reasonable depth for a restaurant of this scale. You'll find proper grower-ish picks like Drappier Brut Nature Rosé alongside mainstream anchors like G.H. Mumm Cordon Rouge, which tells you this list is trying to please two different tables at once. The white wine section is genuinely solid, with Domaine Fichet Mâcon-Burgy, a Sancerre from Comte De La Chevalière, and an Emile Beyer Alsace Pinot Blanc giving you real options beyond the predictable. New World representation is modest — Flowers Sonoma Coast Chardonnay and Sokol Blosser Evolution Pinot Noir show up — but this list isn't pretending to be global; it's a French brasserie and acts like one.

Twenty-two by-the-glass options is genuinely impressive, and the spread covers sparkling, white, rosé, and red with enough specificity to avoid feeling like a hotel bar. The $11 house pours (sparkling, white, red, rosé) exist for the table that just wants something wet, but the real action starts around the $14–$20 range where actual producer wines appear. The Rosé & Oysters Hour and Bubbles & Brunch specials suggest the BTG program gets real rotation and promotion — that's a good sign.