Oceanique

The wine list at Oceanique signals its intentions immediately — this is a room that takes Champagne, Burgundy, and Bordeaux seriously, and the 1920s Spanish-style dining room only reinforces the message. It's a special-occasion list for a special-occasion restaurant, and the two are genuinely well-matched. If you're showing up for a tasting menu and oysters, the wine program is absolutely in the right spirit.

The regional focus leans heavily Old World — Champagne, Burgundy, and Bordeaux anchor the list, with California rounding things out for guests who want something stateside. That's a sensible and coherent framework for a French-American seafood kitchen; nobody's reinventing the wheel here, but the wheel is well-made. There's a sommelier on staff, which suggests the list has been curated with actual intention rather than assembled from a distributor catalog. The gaps are likely on the adventurous side — natural wine, southern Italy, or anything too far outside the classics — but within its lane, the list appears confident and complete.

Specific by-the-glass options and counts weren't available at time of writing, but a room this polished with a dedicated sommelier almost certainly runs a considered glass program rather than a token one. We'd expect Champagne pours and a white Burgundy or two — the kind of options that actually match what's coming out of the kitchen. Worth asking your server what's pouring; the staff seems like the kind that will have a real answer.