Marea
1,200 bottles deep and earning every star
Midtown · New York · Coastal Italian · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed March 25, 2026
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First Impression
The wine list at Marea lands like a serious statement — 1,200 selections, anchored in Piemonte and Burgundy, with enough depth to keep a collector busy for months. This is not a list assembled by a marketing team; someone who actually cares about wine built this thing. You'll want to clear your schedule before you start reading it.
Selection Deep Dive
Piemonte is the undisputed heart of this list: Giacomo Conterno Monfortino, Bruno Giacosa Falletto, Giuseppe Rinaldi Brunate, Burlotto Monvigliero — it reads like a greatest-hits of Barolo with actual vintage depth going back to 2000 and beyond. Burgundy holds its own with Rousseau Clos St. Jacques, Comtes Lafon Meursault, Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles, and Bonneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne — not filler Burgundy, the real stuff. The Italian beyond Piemonte gets a look too, with gems like Podere Le Boncie Le Trame and a Soldera Brunello Riserva that will make your hands shake a little. The only gap is that if you want something outside Italy and France, you're mostly on your own.
By the Glass
The by-the-glass program here is legitimately one of the best in New York City — a high bar in a city drowning in good wine lists. Expect well-chosen options that rotate with intention, including serious producers that most restaurants wouldn't dare pour by the glass. The 2022 Roland Lavantureux Chablis Vieilles Vignes showing up in a pours program is the kind of detail that tells you exactly who is running this list.
2022 Roland Lavantureux Chablis Vieilles Vignes — N/A — by the glass
Lavantureux is one of Chablis' most reliable growers and this Vieilles Vignes bottling punches well above its price tier. Finding it available by the glass at a midtown Manhattan restaurant that's charging $65 for pasta is a genuine win — order a glass before you look at anything else.
2022 Podere Le Boncie Le Trame
At $225 on a list where Barolo bottles can run into four figures, Le Boncie's Le Trame is easy to overlook — but this Sangiovese-based blend from Chianti Classico is a genuinely soulful wine from one of the appellation's most thoughtful producers. It's the bottle for someone who wants to drink beautifully without announcing it to the whole table.
BAROLO RISERVA MONFORTINO GIACOMO CONTERNO 2004 ($3,300)
It's a great wine. It is also $3,300. Unless someone else is paying or you are actively celebrating something that changed your life, the opportunity cost here is enormous — you could drink most of the Italian section for that price. Save Monfortino for the cellar.
2016 Comm G.B. Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero + Fusilli with red wine braised octopus and bone marrow
Burlotto's Monvigliero is all iron, roses, and structure — it has the backbone to cut through the richness of bone marrow and enough bright acidity to keep up with braised octopus without bulldozing it. This is the kind of pairing that makes you put your fork down and just think for a second.
🔥 The Bottom Line
Marea is the real thing — a destination wine list that rewards the curious, punishes no one for asking questions, and makes a strong case that Italian and Burgundian wines belong in the same conversation. The markups are what they are at this level in New York, but the quality of what's in the cellar and in the glass earns it.
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