Five Bottles Does Not a Wine List Make
· Atlanta · Italian · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed October 23, 2026 · How we review
RagingWine reviewed Tavola Trattoria’s wine list and gave it The Lazy List — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Five wines. That's it. Five. The wine list at Tavola Trattoria is less a curated selection and more a shrug in PDF form. For an Italian restaurant, a country with 350-plus documented grape varieties, this is a genuinely puzzling level of effort.
The list leans almost entirely into sparkling and rosé — Moscato d'Asti, Prosecco, Franciacorta, Lambrusco, and a Negroamaro rosé. That's a very narrow lane for a trattoria. There's nothing wrong with the individual producers: Ca' Del Bosco is a serious Franciacorta house and Tormaresco is a credible name in southern Italy. But five bottles total, with no still reds, no whites beyond the Moscato, and no Chianti, Barolo, or Vermentino in sight, means the list is functionally decorative.
By-the-glass options are not documented in our sources, so we can't tell you whether a glass pour is even possible here. If you're ordering by the bottle, you have four confirmed prices and at least one bottle — the Saracco Moscato d'Asti — listed at $101, which is a significant markup for a wine that retails well under $20.
The Bottom Line
Tavola Trattoria's wine program is five bottles deep and priced without apology — $101 for a Saracco Moscato is the kind of markup that makes you consider ordering water and going wine shopping after dinner. The list has no still wines at all, which is a strange call for an Italian restaurant. Order a cocktail or ask if they have a corkage policy, because this wine list isn't doing you any favors.
5 wines captured from the source list, including wines not yet matched to our catalog. Availability, vintages, and prices can change. View source wine list.
Moscato D'asti, Saracco (Piedmont, IT) 101
Sparkling & Rose
$101.00 / bottle
Prosecco, Bottega (Veneto, IT) 101
Sparkling & Rose
$101.00 / bottle
Franciacorta, Ca' Del Bosco, Cuvee Prestige (Lombardy, IT) 000
Sparkling & Rose
Lambrusco Grasparossa, Bruno Zanasi (Emilia-Romagna, IT) 000
Sparkling & Rose
Negromaro Rose, Tormaresco "Calafuria" (Apulia, IT) 000
Sparkling & Rose
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