Mountain Town Bar With Surprisingly Good Taste
Downtown Telluride / West Pacific Avenue · Telluride · New American / Cocktail & Small Plates · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 26, 2026
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Nineteen labels isn't a wine list — it's a wine opinion, and there… has some decent ones. The room skews cocktail-bar, so the fact that they've bothered with Meursault and a Super Tuscan at all is quietly impressive. Don't come here expecting a cellar; come expecting a short list that mostly earns its keep.
The list leans hard on Napa Cabernet — Stags Leap Artemis, Turnbull Black Label, and a To Kalon Highest Beauty all make appearances, which tells you exactly who's drinking here and what they're willing to spend. But there are genuine curveballs: a Trimbach Alsatian Riesling, Pertinace Langhe Nebbiolo, and a Domaine Patrick Javillier Meursault suggest someone put real thought into the build. The Italian and Spanish representation is thin but punches above its weight with the Sor Ugo Bolgheri Superiore and a 2017 Bodegas Ugalde Tempranillo Reserva. The gaps are real — no Rosé, no domestic bubbles worth mentioning, nothing from Germany or the Southern Hemisphere — but for a 19-bottle list in a mountain cocktail bar, the hits land.
Nine pours for a 19-bottle list is a solid ratio — roughly half the cellar is available by the glass, which we appreciate. The Pertinace Langhe Nebbiolo at $18 and the Siduri Pinot Noir at $19 are the workhorses here, offering real wine for real money in a market that loves to charge resort tax on everything. No visible rotation or reserve-by-the-glass program, which is a missed opportunity given the Meursault and Champagne options sitting on the bottle list.
Pertinace Langhe Nebbiolo 2021 — $68/bottle ($18/glass)
Langhe Nebbiolo from a reliable Piedmontese producer at $68 a bottle is about as fair as Telluride pricing gets. This is proper Nebbiolo — earthy, structured, a little stern — for less than what the resort next door charges for a Cab by the glass. Order the bottle.
Bodegas Ugalde 'Reserva' Tempranillo 2017
Nobody at an altitude bar in Colorado is ordering a Spanish Tempranillo Reserva, which is exactly why you should. A 2017 with bottle age, Rioja-style structure, and at $110 it's the most interesting thing on the red side of the list that most tables will completely ignore.
Turnbull Cellars 'Black Label' Cabernet Sauvignon Napa 2018
At $325 a bottle, this is the most expensive wine on the list and it's working very hard to justify that number. Turnbull Black Label retails in the $80-100 range — that's a markup north of 3x, and in a cocktail bar with no sommelier on confirmed staff, this is a splurge that belongs on a different list entirely.
Failla Chardonnay Sonoma Coast 2022 + Oysters
Failla's Sonoma Coast Chardonnay is mineral-driven and restrained — exactly what you want against a plate of cold oysters. The wine doesn't fight the brine; it runs alongside it. At $82 a bottle, it's one of the more honest prices on the list for a producer worth knowing.
🎲 The Bottom Line
there… is a cocktail bar wearing a surprisingly decent wine list, and in Telluride that's not nothing. The markups on the big Napa bottles are hard to defend, but if you navigate toward the Nebbiolo, the Tempranillo, or the Failla Chard, you'll drink well without feeling taken.
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