A Steakhouse With a Natural Wine Secret
· Houston · Steakhouse · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed October 23, 2026 · How we review
RagingWine reviewed The Palm Houston’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Walk into The Palm expecting a wall of Napa Cab and Argentine Malbec, and this list will genuinely stop you mid-scroll. Six bottles, sure — but six bottles that read like a natural wine bar curator snuck into a legacy steakhouse and rewrote the whole thing. We were not expecting this.
The list is tiny by any measure — just six labels — but the editorial point of view is sharp and coherent in a way that most 60-bottle lists never manage. You've got Loire Valley representation from both Lucien Crochet and Puzelat Bonhomme, a Minervois from Clos du Gravillas that earns its place, and a Ferrando Canavese Rosso from Piedmont that you will almost never see on a Houston steakhouse menu. Ruth Lewandowski's Feints, a California natural wine that flies well under the mainstream radar, rounds out the mid-tier alongside a Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Domaine Bois de Boursan anchoring the top end. The regional spread — Loire, Languedoc, Piedmont, California, Southern Rhône — is legitimately eclectic for six wines. The glaring gap is anything white beyond the Sancerre, and zero options under $23 by the bottle.
We have no documented by-the-glass program for this location. Given the list size and the bottle-only pricing we observed, it's possible pours are available but unconfirmed — ask your server before assuming. If they're not pouring by the glass, splitting a bottle is the obvious move here.
The Bottom Line
Six bottles shouldn't work this well, but The Palm Houston's list reads like someone with actual taste had five minutes and zero budget to fix the wine program — and somehow nailed it. We can't speak to service knowledge or storage conditions with confidence, but the value here, especially that Lucien Crochet at $23, is hard to argue with. If you're eating at The Palm anyway, ignore every instinct to order something familiar and trust the list.
6 wines captured from the source list, including wines not yet matched to our catalog. Availability, vintages, and prices can change. View source wine list.
Lucien Crochet "Le Chêne" Sancerre FR, 2013 $23
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$23.00 / bottle
Puzelat Bonhomme Loire FR, 2014 $48
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$48.00 / bottle
Clos du Gravillas Minervois FR, 2012 $66
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$66.00 / bottle
Ferrando "Canavese Rosso" Piedmont IT, 2013 $44
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$44.00 / bottle
Ruth Lewandowski "Feints" Mendocino CA, 2013 $50
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$50.00 / bottle
Domaine Bois de Boursan Châteauneuf-du-Pape FR, 2011 $90
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$90.00 / bottle
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