Press Restaurant
This is a Wine Spectator Grand Award list built squarely around Napa Cabernet, with 1,867 wines that run heavily red (1,241 bottles) and lean hard on California, where Cabernet Sauvignon alone accounts for 592 listings. The depth is in vertical and producer firepower: Ridge Vineyards shows up 103 times, with Diamond Creek, Bond, Mayacamas, Heitz Cellar, and Abreu all deeply represented, and the high end climbs to a $35,000 Stag's Leap S.L.V. and a $20,000 Ridge Monte Bello. Whites are thin by comparison at 151 bottles, with rosé and sparkling almost an afterthought, so this is a cellar for collectors and steak drinkers, not a place to chase a broad spread of styles. Bottles open at $15 and the median sits around $490, meaning there is room to drink well below the trophies if you know where to look. The glass program is small at 16 pours, so guests wanting flexibility will mostly be ordering by the bottle.