The GrandView Restaurant

The wine list at GrandView reads exactly like the restaurant looks — polished, safe, and built for people celebrating something. You're not here to discover a grower Champagne or a funky Jura red; you're here for the view and a reassuringly familiar Napa cab. The list delivers on that unspoken promise without doing much else.

The backbone is California through and through — Napa, Santa Barbara, Santa Lucia Highlands, with a loose grip on a couple Italian imports (a Pinot Grigio and a Prosecco) to keep the menu anchored. The house-labelled GrandView wines from Santa Barbara and San Martin show up across all the major varieties, which is a clever move for margin but tells you nothing interesting about the wines themselves. The real names — Belle Glos, Double Diamond, Mt. Brave, Opus One — are crowd-pleaser royalty, not discovery-driven picks. Gaps in the Old World are wide: France exists only in Champagne form, and there's no Rhône, no Burgundy, no Spanish or Southern Hemisphere representation to speak of.

The by-the-glass program is broader than you'd expect for a mountaintop steakhouse — somewhere in the 12–20 range, with pours running from $14 to a genuinely eyebrow-raising $60. The real flex here is that Opus One 2016 shows up as a glass option, which is either a brilliant special-occasion move or a quiet warning about where your credit card is headed. Rotation appears minimal; this feels like a list that gets set once a season and left alone.