Wine List Reviews

YAVA is a craft beer joint that remembered wine drinkers exist, and it did a decent job of it. Not a wine destination, but if you're in Cumming and eating live-fire, you won't go thirsty or broke.

Café Margaux is a reliable option in a market where wine ambition is rare — the list is imperfect but functional, and the better bottles are genuinely worth ordering. Just steer clear of the Canyon Road section and you'll leave happy.

Well Hung Bineyard is unapologetically a winery tasting room experience, and if you show up expecting that, you won't be disappointed. The reserve-level wines earn genuine respect; the name game is just the packaging.

Corima's wine list is proof that ten well-chosen bottles beat a hundred thoughtless ones every time. If you care about what's in your glass, this place is worth your attention.

Cotton Calf has made a deeply strange choice to offer only Chardonnay, and the pricing doesn't compensate for the lack of options. Unless your entire table is Chardonnay-only, there are better places to order a bottle with dinner in the area.

Cooper's Hawk is a wine club experience dressed up as a restaurant, and if you're already a member, you'll feel right at home — everyone else is essentially a captive audience for a single producer's full catalog. We'd send a friend here for the club experience, not for the wine list.

City Vino has 'Vino' in the name and eight red wines on the list — that gap between promise and delivery is hard to ignore. The prices are fair and the Alma Negra and Antech are genuinely worth ordering, but this list needs a serious expansion before we'd send someone here specifically for the wine.

il Cigno Italiano is the kind of place that earns its Wine Spectator badge rather than just displaying it — a sommelier on staff and an Italian-focused list in a small coastal Carolina town is genuinely worth a detour. We need a return visit to fill in the specifics, but the bones here are clearly good.

Benihana Anchorage is worth every minute of the hibachi spectacle — the wine list, however, is pure corporate filler with steep markups and zero ambition. Order the Ferrari Brut, enjoy the chef's knife tricks, and keep your wine expectations as low as the flames are high.

This is a list that exists because restaurants have to have one, not because anyone at this location loves wine. Order the steak, drink the Riesling, and keep your expectations exactly where a chain steakhouse sets them.

Cattle Company serves a decent steak, but the wine list is pure chain-steakhouse autopilot — familiar labels, no ambition, and markups that don't reward your loyalty. Order the prime rib, grab a beer, and save the wine exploration for somewhere that's actually trying.

Sullivan's Anchorage is a dependable, well-staffed steakhouse wine program that plays it safe and prices accordingly — if you know which bottles to pick, you'll drink well; if you don't, the sommelier is there to help you avoid the obvious traps. Send a friend here for a big steak night, but tell them to skip the Caymus.

The Anaheim White House earns its keep as a reliable wine stop for the area — more thoughtful than the tourist-trap pricing suggests, especially if you navigate toward the Italian bottles. Just watch the per-glass ceiling and steer clear of the Champagne splits unless someone at the table is celebrating.

Cattle Shed won't rattle any cages or win wine list awards, but it delivers a fair, well-rounded program with a by-the-glass setup that most restaurants twice its size can't match. If you're eating steak in Alpharetta and you care about what's in your glass, you could do a lot worse.

Machete is punching well above its weight class for a mid-sized Southern city — the list is genuinely curious, the by-the-glass program is absurdly generous, and the pricing won't make you feel robbed. Send your wine-nerd friends here immediately.

The Crow's Nest is the best wine list in Anchorage by a significant margin, which is a real achievement even if the selection plays it safer than we'd like. Send your friends here for a special occasion — just remind them to skip the Opus One unless they're celebrating something truly life-altering.

Sorrento's is a comfortable, no-pretense neighborhood Italian where the wine list exists to serve the food — not steal the show. The markups are steeper than they need to be for this caliber of selection, but if you're here for the pasta and a glass of Chianti, you won't go home disappointed.

Sullivan's Bar is a reliable, if uninspired, wine program that does exactly what a national steakhouse chain needs it to do — and nothing more. Come on a Sunday, grab 50% off a bottle of Silver Oak, order the ribeye, and don't ask too many questions.

Humpy's is a genuinely great Alaskan alehouse with 40+ beers on tap and live music — the wine list is just not the reason you're here, and it doesn't pretend to be. Order a local craft beer, eat the halibut tacos, and save the wine night for somewhere else.

Fireside Grill is a perfectly fine place to drink wine if your only criterion is 'wine, please' — but the list is built for resort convenience, not value or discovery. Order what you know, don't overthink it, and save the serious bottle for somewhere else.

Double Musky is a legendary Alaska dining institution, and the wine list is its most forgettable feature — safe, overpriced, and built for no one in particular. Drink the wine, eat the pepper steak, enjoy the room, and don't come here expecting the list to surprise you.

Seven Glaciers earns its keep on atmosphere alone, but the wine list is playing it safe when the setting is begging for something more adventurous. Come for the tram ride and the king crab, order the Riesling, and enjoy the view — just don't expect the list to match the drama outside the window.

Campobello is a reliable neighborhood bistro with a wine list that matches its ambitions — no fireworks, no embarrassments, fair prices for Anchorage. Send a friend here for a good dinner; just don't send them expecting to discover something new in the glass.

Kinley's is the most serious wine program in Anchorage by a meaningful margin, and that deserves credit even when the markups occasionally test your goodwill. If you're eating here, drink the wine — just let someone point you toward the Left Coast bottle and away from the Clicquot reflex.

Haute Quarter Grill isn't going to win any awards for wine ambition, but in downtown Anchorage it's a dependable spot where the list fits the food and the pricing — while steep — won't make you feel robbed. Send a friend here for a solid steak night; just go in with the right expectations.

Orso is the most reliable wine experience in downtown Anchorage — damned by faint praise, maybe, but genuinely true. The markups sting and the list won't shock anyone, but the regional logic is solid and the by-the-glass options give you real choices. Send your friends here for wine, just steer them away from the Meiomi.

Aya Sushi isn't a destination wine list, but it's a well-run, competently stocked program with a real sommelier and fair pricing on good California bottles. Send a friend who wants a reliable glass of Cakebread with their omakase — they won't be disappointed.

Maribella is the kind of wine program that Sioux Falls didn't know it needed — a real Italian-focused list backed by actual staff expertise and a Wine Spectator credential earned, not inherited. We'd send a friend here without hesitation, especially if they let one of those five sommeliers steer the table.

The Bistro earns its stripes as a reliable wine destination in Jackson Hole — the sommelier influence is visible, the European focus is coherent, and the list has depth worth exploring. Just go in knowing the markups are hotel-resort territory, and steer toward the Old World bottles where the curation is strongest.

Zuni Café's wine list is a small, sharply focused document with a clear point of view — if grower Champagne and thoughtful California whites are your thing, this list will make you very happy. Markups keep it from being a steal, but the curation earns its keep.