Kaiseki Precision Meets World-Class California Cellar
Healdsburg · Californian, Japanese · Visit Website ↗
Updated August 2026
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · April 5, 2026
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The wine list at SingleThread lands like a second tasting menu — you need a moment to absorb it. We're talking somewhere north of 2,800 selections spanning California royalty, serious Burgundy, and blue-chip Bordeaux, all inside a 62-seat inn-restaurant in Healdsburg that looks like a Japanese ryokan grew out of a Sonoma farm. This is a wine program that means business.
California and France are the twin engines here, and both fire on all cylinders. On the California side you've got Kistler, Aubert, Marcassin, Williams Selyem, Hirsch, Ridge Monte Bello, Sine Qua Non, and Pax — basically a who's who of the state's finest producers, not a filler bottle in sight. The Burgundy shelf reads like a collector's fever dream: Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Leroy, and Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet sitting alongside each other without irony. Bordeaux brings Château Pétrus and Château Margaux to the table, and the list holds a Wine Spectator Grand Award since 2021 — an honor that's earned, not assumed.
With around 20–30 pours available by the glass, SingleThread gives you enough rope to build a proper multi-wine progression across a multi-course kaiseki meal — which is exactly the point. The glass program skews toward producers already represented in the cellar, so you're not getting a consolation-prize pour while the good stuff stays bottled. Rotation details aren't publicly listed, but with six sommeliers on the floor, expect the glass selection to shift with the season and the kitchen.
Pax Wines Syrah — $50–$80 (estimated bottle range)
In a list dominated by triple-digit heavy hitters, Pax represents the best shot at drinking genuinely exciting California Syrah without crossing into budget-anxiety territory. Pax has the terroir chops and the cult credibility — it just hasn't hit the pricing stratosphere of its neighbors on this list yet.
Hirsch Vineyards Pinot Noir
Everyone at the table is eyeing the Williams Selyem, but Hirsch's Pinot Noir from the Sonoma Coast is the real story — wild, windswept, and structurally distinct in a way that plays beautifully against SingleThread's more delicate kaiseki courses. It tends to get overlooked when DRC is sitting three lines above it.
Château Pétrus
Pétrus is legitimately one of the greatest wines on earth — and at a restaurant charging fine-dining tasting menu prices on top of what's already a steep bottle markup, you'll pay a premium on top of a premium on top of a premium. Unless this is a once-in-a-decade occasion, your money goes further almost anywhere else on this list.
Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet + Abalone with seasonal foraged ingredients
Leflaive's Puligny has the mineral tension and textural precision to shadow abalone without overpowering it — and the foraged, coastal-leaning ingredients on the plate find a natural echo in the chalky, saline character of premier cru Puligny. It's the kind of pairing that makes you stop mid-course.
The Bottom Line
SingleThread is one of the few restaurants in California where the wine program genuinely matches the ambition of the kitchen — deep cellar, expert staff, and a list that rewards curiosity at every price point above $100. Yes, it's expensive by any reasonable measure, but if you're already committing to the tasting menu, do not sleep on what's in that cellar.
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