The Foundry

You open this list expecting a safe hotel-lobby wine card and instead you get 237 bottles that read like someone actually cares — grower Champagne, Jura oddities, Canary Islands whites, and serious Burgundy all sharing the same pages. It's genuinely surprising, and in the best possible way. The Hartford skyline through the windows is the view; the wine list is the show.

The depth here is real and it runs in every direction. The Champagne section alone — Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru, Emmanuel Brochet rosé, Krug Grande Cuvée, a 2006 La Grande Dame, and a Jeroboam of Lanson for the table that really wants to commit — would embarrass most wine bars. The French backbone is stacked: Beaujolais from Foillard père et fils, Dutraive, and Anne-Sophie Dubois; Burgundy from Comtes Lafon, Denis Mortet, and Dominique Lafon; Loire Chenin from Thibaud Boudignon and Chidaine; and Rhône Syrah from Jamet. But the list doesn't stop at France — Falkenstein Mosel Rieslings, Envinate Canary Islands whites, Arnot-Roberts California, Walter Scott Oregon Chardonnay, and a Bulgarian pét-nat from Zagreus give you enough detours to spend an hour just reading. The only mild gap: zero by-the-glass pours listed, which means every table is committing to a bottle from the jump.

There are no listed by-the-glass pours on this wine list — every option is bottle-only. For a fine dining room with an active specials program, we'd expect some glass options to exist in practice, so ask your server what's being poured by the glass tonight before you assume you're locked into a bottle. The active program suggests they rotate things through, but the printed list won't help you here.