SixtyFour - Wine Bar & Kitchen

Sixty-four wines by the glass — daily — is a flex that most dedicated wine bars in major cities can't pull off, let alone a spot on Water Street in downtown Naperville. The list lands with real weight: a sommelier on staff, tasting pours starting at one ounce, and a 100-bottle reserve room that signals genuine intention. This is not a restaurant that happens to have wine; this is a wine program that happens to serve food.

The breadth here is legitimately impressive — every major region, every major varietal, organized in a way that lets curious drinkers explore without getting lost. The house bottling from Stagecoach Vineyard is a standout curatorial move: Stagecoach is one of Napa's most sought-after vineyard sources, and having a proprietary label from it is the kind of thing you'd expect from a high-end city wine bar, not a Naperville dining room. The bones of the list lean California-heavy — Caymus, Silver Oak, Cakebread, Orin Swift's '8 Years in the Desert' — which is crowd-pleasing but safe. We'd love to see more European depth given the ambition of the program.

Sixty-four options by the glass is the whole identity of this place, and it earns that number honestly. The one-, three-, and six-ounce tasting format is genuinely smart — it lets you run a DIY flight without committing to a full pour, and it's the kind of flexibility that makes adventurous ordering feel low-risk. Rotation cadence isn't fully documented, but with a sommelier on staff, we'd expect regular updates rather than a static list.