Hinoki & The Bird
This is a big, red leaning collector's list, roughly 1,400 bottles built around California cult Cabernet and Burgundian and Bordeaux pedigree, with reds outnumbering whites better than three to one. The depth shows in the producers: 80 plus listings of Sine Qua Non, deep verticals of Bryant Family, Harlan, Scarecrow, and Peter Michael, and a serious Domaine de la Romanee Conti presence that runs up to a $31,500 La Tache. Prices open around $50 but the median sits near $325, and the top end climbs into five figures, so this rewards a guest who wants trophy bottles and can spend for them. Whites are real but secondary, leaning on white Burgundy and Chardonnay, and there is no by the glass program, so everything is sold by the bottle. Know your California heavyweights and your Cote d'Or, because that is where this list lives.