Natural wine hiding in your croissant spot
Downtown Jackson · Jackson Hole · Cafe / Bakery · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed June 18, 2026
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You walk in for a laminated pastry and leave holding a glass of Sicilian natural rosato — that's the Persephone move. The wine list is short enough to fit on a napkin, but every pour is intentional in a way that most full-service restaurants can't claim. For a bakery-café in a ski town full of $22 cocktails, this is a quietly subversive little program.
Six wines, all available by the glass, all leaning natural and European — that's the whole thesis here, and it works. The list doesn't try to be comprehensive; it tries to be considered, and there's a real difference. The Lamoresca Rosato NV from Sicily is the anchor: a low-intervention rosato from one of the island's most respected small producers, the kind of bottle you'd pay $20 a glass for at a wine bar in Brooklyn. Beyond that, the list spans sparkling, white, and red with an apparent Rhône thread running through the reds. Gaps exist — no deep cellar, no half-bottles, no vintage exploration — but that's not what this place is going for.
All six wines pour by the glass, which is the right call for a café format where nobody's committing to a bottle over a breakfast sandwich. Prices run $12–$15 per glass, which is honest for Jackson Hole, where the altitude seems to inflate wine markups alongside everything else. Rotation appears limited rather than dynamic, but the baseline quality justifies a second pour.
House Rhône Blend (red) — $11/glass
At $11 a glass on a retail bottle that runs around $15, the markup is practically nonexistent by restaurant standards. A Rhône-style red with a croissant-based lunch is exactly the kind of low-stakes pleasure that makes a Tuesday feel civilized.
Lamoresca Rosato NV
Most people ordering wine at a bakery reach for whatever's cheapest. Don't. Lamoresca is a serious Sicilian producer working with old-vine Nerello and minimal intervention — this rosato has more going on than anything else on the list and you'd struggle to find it by the glass anywhere else in Jackson Hole.
House Sparkling
At $12 a glass on a $15 retail bottle, it's not a rip-off, but an unspecified house sparkling is exactly the kind of anonymous pour that exists to fill a menu category. If you're spending money on bubbles, go somewhere with a name on the label.
Lamoresca Rosato NV + Seasonal salad
The Lamoresca's natural acidity and dry, savory profile cut through dressed greens without competing with them — it's the kind of wine that makes a simple lunch feel like you planned it.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Persephone isn't a wine destination, but it absolutely punches above its weight for what it is — a bakery-café with a genuinely thoughtful short list of natural pours at fair prices. If you're in Jackson and want a glass of something interesting without the steakhouse markup, this is your move.
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