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Wine lists

Wine list intelligence

We read the wine lists of the world's most celebrated restaurants and identify every bottle they pour. This page is what all that reading knows.

Every wine list we read · 3,449 rooms worldwide in 764 cities
London 150New York 131San Francisco 70Rome 50Sydney 46Hong Kong 42Stockholm 40

A dot is a city, sized by the rooms we read there; every dot opens the city's rooms.

The boards
Top wines →The sommelier consensus, every bottle ranked by rooms pouring itDom Perignon leads · poured at 697 of 3,450The Top 100 →The hundred most serious wine lists on earth, computed from the cellarsGeranium is No. 1 · updated with every readRestaurants →Every room we read, by country, city and award3,450 lists · 54 countries · 856 citiesThe producers →Who the world's best lists pour, by country and region4,837 producers identified
The intelligence
The market, whole

What the world's cellar holds

The origin of every identified bottle across the 1,433,988 list slots we read. France holds 48% of the world's serious cellar space.

France 48%Italy 20%United States 15%Germany 4%Spain 4%Austria 2%
For the operator

What an award holds

The cellar depth behind each CruRank wine list award, measured across every awarded room we read. An Icon cellar runs six times the depth of the foundational award.

CruRank Wine List Award
290
median wines on the list
1,762 rooms hold it
CruRank Select
754
median wines on the list
396 rooms hold it
CruRank Icon
1,882
median wines on the list
142 rooms hold it
For the wine director

The canon of the Icon cellar

What the world's 142 CruRank Icon cellars agree on. This is the shelf a great list is measured against, and the checklist a buyer walks in with.

WineIcon cellars pouring
Petrus, Pomerol100 · 70%Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Echezeaux Grand Cru96 · 68%Gaja, Barbaresco96 · 68%E. Guigal, Cote Rotie, La Landonne95 · 67%E. Guigal, Cote Rotie, La Mouline94 · 66%E. Guigal, Cote Rotie, La Turque90 · 63%Vega Sicilia, Unico, Ribera del Duero82 · 58%Louis Roederer, Cristal80 · 56%Domaine Jamet, Cote Rotie79 · 56%Chateau Rayas, Chateauneuf-du-Pape77 · 54%
For the wine director

What the table asks, city by city

The median bottle price on serious lists, by city. Pricing a list against its own city, not against the world, starts here.

CityMedian bottle
New York$280Dallas$270Las Vegas$250Washington$220Houston$220New Orleans$220San Francisco$215Boston$185Chicago$172Tampa$160
The tail

The one-room wines

Of 574,185 wines we can tell apart, 474,954 pour in exactly one room on earth. The consensus board is the visible tenth; the singular cellar is where a list differentiates.

474,954
bottlings on exactly one list · every one searchable
Arriving

The movers

Lists are re-read on a rolling cadence. As histories accumulate, this module reports motion: the wines entering the world's lists, the regions gaining shelf, the houses widening distribution.

Entering lists · fills with re-read deltasRegions gaining shelf · quarter over quarter shareDistribution widening · new rooms per house
Built from the lists we read · every number links to its surface · How we count
The Friday recap
The week's sale prices, records and movers. One email, no noise.