French Alpine Bistro
This is a Burgundy heavy, red leaning list of 348 bottles built around the great Cote de Nuits houses, with serious depth in producers like Domaine Meo Camuzet and Armand Rousseau and reds making up well over a third of the book. Champagne is the other clear anchor with 25 listings, and Bordeaux shows up through Pauillac and bottlings such as Chateau Lynch Bages, while California, Tuscany, and Piedmont round out the international reach. Prices run wide, from a $15 bottle up to a $5,120 Rousseau Chambertin, but the median sits around $310, so this rewards a guest who wants to trade up rather than someone hunting bargains. The 32 glass pours give you room to work the floor, though the heart of the list is clearly the cellar of red Burgundy and tete de cuvee Champagne. Send collectors and Burgundy lovers here, and lean on the glass program for everyone else.