Silver Lake's Natural Wine Pharmacy Has No Antidote
Silver Lake · Los Angeles · Wine Bar · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed June 21, 2026
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The list reads like a love letter to the Euro-natural-wine crowd — Jura, Loire, Beaujolais, Sicily, and Atlantic Spain all accounted for, no California Cab in sight. It's narrow by design and unapologetically so. If you showed up hoping for something familiar, that's probably on you.
Eighty to 120 labels sounds modest, but the curation is doing heavy lifting here. Foillard's Morgon Côte du Py, Ganevat's Les Grands Teppes, Radikon Slatnik, COS Pithos Rosso, Occhipinti SP68, and Envinate Lousas in the same room is not an accident — someone with a real point of view built this list. The Loire gets serious attention: Tessier's Chenin Blanc and Domaine de la Taille aux Loups from Montlouis show they're not just pointing at Muscadet and calling it a day. The blind spot is anything outside Europe — if you want Chilean, Argentinian, or domestic wines, this is not your pharmacy.
Ten to fifteen pours by the glass at $15–$26 is a reasonable spread for a natural-wine bar in Los Angeles, and the prices track with what you'd expect in this neighborhood. The rotation appears to follow the bottle list closely — expect the same Loire-Italy-Spain axis in glass form. We'd love to see more aggressive turnover to keep regulars guessing, but what's there is well-chosen.
Tessier (Loire) Chenin Blanc — $15–$18 (glass estimate)
Loire Chenin at this quality level by the glass is genuinely rare in LA. It's the kind of wine that makes you stop mid-conversation — tense, mineral, alive — and the glass price doesn't punish you for ordering a second.
Envinate Lousas
Atlantic Spain from a producer that doesn't get enough table time in the US. Envinate's work in Galicia and the Canaries is some of the most interesting stuff coming out of the peninsula right now, and most people at this bar are going to walk right past it toward the Burgundy section. Don't be that person.
COS Pithos Rosso 2021
At $120 on the list against a $45 retail price, you're paying a 167% markup for the privilege of drinking it here. COS is a great producer and Pithos is a genuinely interesting amphora-aged Sicilian red — but this one tips past the point of reasonable. Buy it at a good bottle shop and save the markup for an extra glass of something else.
Foillard Morgon Côte du Py 2021 + Steak tartare
Côte du Py is the most serious cru in Beaujolais — deeper, darker, and more structured than your average Gamay. Against a well-seasoned tartare, the wine's iron and dark fruit cut through the richness and fat of the egg yolk without steamrolling the dish. It's one of those combos that makes the food taste better and the wine taste better simultaneously.
🎲 The Bottom Line
La Pharmacie du Vin is exactly what Silver Lake deserves: a tight, opinionated natural wine list with real depth and a staff that actually knows what they're pouring. The markups will sting if you've been doing your homework at retail, but for a proper night out in a room that takes wine seriously, it's worth it.
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