La Toque

This is a Grand Award list, over 2,400 bottles deep, built around California with a serious Burgundy and Bordeaux backbone behind it. The strength is local and ambitious: Napa, Sonoma Coast, and Russian River Valley run deep, with house anchors in Aubert, Williams Selyem, Cobb, and Martinelli, plus blue chip Old World names like E. Guigal, Domaine de la Romanee Conti, and first growth Bordeaux that climb past $20,000. It rewards a guest who wants to trade up, but it is not only a trophy book; bottles start at $15 and the median sits around $275, so you can build a real table without spending big. The 46 wines by the glass give you room to pour across sparkling, white, and red without going to the cellar. Know your California producers cold, because that is where most guests will live on this list.

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