Deer Mountain Inn
This is a serious, France and Italy leaning list of 630 bottles built around Burgundy, with red and white Burgundy together making up the deepest section and producers like Bachelet Monnot, Morey Coffinet, and Pierre Morey showing the white side runs as strong as the red. Beyond Burgundy it leans into Italian reds, Champagne, the Loire, and a sharp set of California growers, with house favorites like Sandlands, Arnot Roberts, and Corison signaling a taste for low intervention and old vine bottlings. Bottles run from $62 to $1,595 with a median around $145, so there is real entry level access even as the top end reaches Rayas and Beaucastel Châteauneuf du Pape. There is no by the glass program, so everything is a bottle commitment, which means you steer guests by appetite for the table rather than the pour. This rewards a guest who knows Burgundy and wants depth there, and anyone curious about California from a grower's lens.