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You don't expect to find a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winner tucked into a strip of Colleyville Boulevard, but here we are. The list arrives and it's immediately clear someone here takes wine seriously — this isn't a restaurant that phoned it in with a dozen grocery-store labels and called it a wine program. The casually elegant room sets the right tone: this is a place where the soufflé and the Burgundy are given equal respect.

The 200-400 bottle list leans hard into California, France, and Italy — exactly where you want it for a French-leaning bistro with serious seafood. California is the anchor, with the expected heavy-hitters like Caymus, Silver Oak, Jordan, and Opus One doing the crowd-pleasing work. France shows genuine depth: Louis Jadot and Joseph Drouhin's Puligny-Montrachet signal that someone made a real effort on the Burgundy side, and Domaine Weinbach's Alsace bottlings add a thoughtful, food-friendly dimension that most Texas bistros skip entirely. Italy brings Antinori Tignanello and Gaja Barbaresco — two bottles that don't end up on lists like this by accident.

Fifteen to twenty-five options by the glass is a genuinely generous program, and the $12–$20 range keeps it accessible without scraping the bottom of the barrel. We'd love to see more rotation and a stronger white or Alsatian presence by the glass to match the kitchen's seafood-forward menu, but the sheer count means you're not stuck choosing between two forgettable options.