The Dining Room at High Hampton
This is a big, red leaning list, 521 bottles deep with red wine accounting for more than half of it, built squarely around California and Rhone style domestic bottlings alongside serious Bordeaux. The strength is American producers like Saxum, Shafer, and Staglin in the Bordeaux and Rhone varietal camps, plus a deep bench of California Pinot Noir from names like Kosta Browne, with French Rhone from J.L. Chave anchoring the imports. It runs the full price spectrum, with a median around $160 but a top end that climbs into trophy territory with Harlan, Lafite Rothschild, and Cheval Blanc well past $2,000. The glass program is genuinely useful at 53 wines, so you can pour broadly without opening a bottle. This list rewards a guest who wants California cult reds or classed growth Bordeaux, though there is plenty in the middle for someone spending more modestly.