Tuscany
Salt Lake's Italian anchor delivers on the bottle
Cottonwood · Salt Lake City · Italian-American · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed March 31, 2026
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First Impression
The wine list at Tuscany lands with some real weight — 200-plus selections is not something most Salt Lake City restaurants can claim, and the Italian-forward architecture makes sense given the concept. Flip through it and you get the feeling someone actually thought about this, even if the pricing occasionally reminds you that you're in a white-tablecloth room in the Cottonwood foothills.
Selection Deep Dive
The backbone is exactly where it should be: Tuscany the region propping up Tuscany the restaurant, with serious bottles like the 2007 Testamatta I.G.T. and the 2018 Gaja Promis Ca'Marcanda anchoring the Italian section. Beyond Italy, the list fans out into France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, California, Australia, and South America — which is genuinely impressive range for a neighborhood Italian spot. The Douro Valley and Tokaj inclusions hint at someone with a broader palate building this list, even if the depth outside Italy thins out quickly. The gap is glaring at the entry level, where Beringer White Zinfandel at $8 a glass feels like an apology for not curating harder at the bottom of the list.
By the Glass
Glass pours run $8 to $23, which is a reasonable spread for an upscale room, though the specific options are only partially visible from public data. What we can say is that the low end starts with crowd-pleasers like White Zinfandel, and the upper registers include some genuinely interesting European pours in the $15-$16 range — the Tokaj by the glass alone is worth a detour if you've never had it. We'd love to see more rotation here; the by-the-glass program feels like it doesn't move as fast as it should.
Tokaj Hungary — $15-$16
Dessert-adjacent but complex enough to drink straight through, Tokaj by the glass at this price point is a flat-out deal — most people walk right past it and that's a mistake.
Douro Valley Portugal
At $9-$12 a glass, a Douro red at an Italian restaurant is the kind of left-field move that actually works — structured, food-friendly, and almost nobody orders it.
Beringer White Zinfandel Napa Valley
Eight dollars for grocery-store pink wine in a room charging $140 for Gaja is a mismatch in both quality and ambition — if you're spending money here, spend it somewhere else on this list.
2018 Gaja Promis Ca'Marcanda I.G.T. + Osso buco
The Promis is a Merlot-Syrah-Sangiovese blend built for braised meat — the dark fruit and savory backbone go straight at the richness of the osso buco without getting lost in the sauce.
✔️ The Bottom Line
Tuscany SLC is the kind of place you bring someone when you want to impress them with a bottle and not explain yourself — the Italian list has real depth and a few genuinely exciting finds. Markup keeps it from being a destination for wine nerds, but as a neighborhood anchor with serious ambitions, it earns the trust.
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