How to Read Our Wine List

October 6, 2026

A wine list is a menu that too many people read like a test. Ours isn't one. It's about seventy-five bottles, it runs from a $28 half-bottle of sweet sherry to a $2,400 Pauillac, and every line of it is there because somebody on our team fell for it. Here's how I'd actually use it.

Start with the two numbers, not the one

Most wines by the glass here show two pour prices: a three-ounce and a six-ounce. The three-ounce pour is the most underrated thing we do. It means a second glass is never a commitment — it's a question. Curious about the Sun Goddess Ramato, the copper-colored Pinot Grigio from Friuli? Three ounces, $13, question answered. You can cross three countries in one dinner that way and spend less than a single big-name glass costs elsewhere.

The policy most guests don't know about

A single glass may be poured from any bottle on the list for half the bottle price.

Any bottle. Where this policy earns its keep is the bottles with no glass pour listed at all. Take the Faust Cabernet from Napa — $90, bottle only. Half of ninety is a $45 glass of serious Napa Cab, opened because you asked. The practical move: find the bottle you're curious about but wouldn't order whole, halve the price in your head, and decide whether one proper glass of it is worth that to you. Sometimes the answer is no, and that's fine. Sometimes it's very much yes.

What the Coravin tag means

Some wines on our list are marked Coravin. That's a tool that pours wine through the cork with a thin needle and backfills the bottle with argon, so the wine barely meets oxygen and the bottle keeps for weeks instead of a day or two. For you, it means wines that would normally only ever be sold by the full bottle — the Joseph Drouhin Bourgogne, the Contino Reserva from Rioja, the Vieux Maillet Pomerol, the Miner Family "Emily's" Cabernet — pour by the glass. It's how a neighborhood spot on Main Street gets away with a by-the-glass program that it probably shouldn't have.

Flights, if you'd rather be driven

Four of them. The White Vertical ($28) and Red Vertical ($32) are four two-ounce pours each, rotating with whatever deserves attention that week. The Solera System ($30) is the sherry walk I wrote about in the post on our name. And the Special Vertical ($60) is four premium reds poured by Coravin — the splurge flight, honestly, and the one I'd point you to on an anniversary.

Don't skip the last page

Dessert and fortified wines pour in three-ounce tastes only, and it's the part of the list I'm proudest of — Sauternes, Tokaji, tawny ports with real age on them. A three-ounce pour of something sweet with Tyler's Warm Up is the correct way to end a night, and I'll defend that position at the bar anytime.

Two last practical notes. If someone at your table isn't drinking, the non-alcoholic spritzes, wine, and sparkling hold their own — nobody's stuck with soda water. And if you're bottomless-ly curious, the orange juice note at the top of the sparkling section is real: any sparkling wine on the list can become a mimosa for $5. I have opinions about which ones should, but I'll keep them to myself unless you ask.

The full list is on the menu page, updated whenever the cellar changes. Or skip the homework entirely: grab a table, tell me what you usually drink, and let me pour you three ounces of something that argues with it.

Can I get a glass of any bottle on the Solera wine list?

Yes — a single glass may be poured from any bottle for half the bottle price. It's the house policy, and it applies across the list.

What pour sizes does Solera offer?

Most wines by the glass pour in 3 oz and 6 oz sizes. Dessert and fortified wines pour in 3 oz only. Flights are built from 2 oz pours.