677 Prime
Albany's Serious Wine Room Means Business
Downtown Albany · Albany · Steakhouse · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed April 15, 2026
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First Impression
The wine list at 677 Prime lands with the kind of thud that makes you sit up straighter. We're talking 400 to 500 selections across an international spread, housed in a room of cherry walls and plush leather that already had us expecting something serious. This isn't a steakhouse wine list that someone assembled on autopilot — there's real intention here.
Selection Deep Dive
The list skews heavily toward the big names that steak-and-red-wine diners want: Opus One, Silver Oak, Caymus, Chateau Montelena — the classics are all accounted for and properly represented. The international reach gives it range beyond California, though the core identity is firmly Napa-and-Bordeaux territory, which makes sense given the prime cuts on the plates. Depth is genuine — 400-plus bottles isn't just a vanity number when a sommelier is curating it. Where it gets predictable is in its blind spot for anything adventurous or off the beaten path; this list wants to impress, not surprise.
By the Glass
Twenty to thirty options by the glass is a serious program — most steakhouses phone it in with eight predictable pours and call it a day. The range here gives you real flexibility whether you're doing a solo glass or working your way through a multi-course dinner. We'd expect rotation to be relatively stable given the upscale format, but the sheer count means you're not stuck choosing between two Cabs.
Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon — null
Silver Oak is one of the rare Napa heavy-hitters that still punches above its price point relative to the room it's in. At a high-end steakhouse with a $$$ markup structure, it lands as the most approachable entry into the prestige Cab tier — recognizable, reliably excellent, and a better spend than climbing further up the list.
Chateau Montelena
Everyone in the room is ordering the Silver Oak or the Caymus. Meanwhile, Chateau Montelena — the Napa winery that embarrassed the French at the 1976 Judgment of Paris — sits there quietly being one of the most historically significant bottles on the list. It's not a sleeper in the traditional sense, but it's consistently overlooked by diners chasing brand recognition, and that's their loss.
Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon
Caymus is fine wine. It's also one of the most marked-up bottles in American steakhouse dining, full stop. You're paying a premium for the label recognition, and at 677 Prime's price tier, that premium compounds fast. The money is better spent moving up to Chateau Montelena or exploring something the sommelier actually gets excited about.
Opus One + Prime Steak
Opus One is a Napa-Bordeaux blend built for exactly this moment — a properly aged, perfectly seared prime cut with the fat and char that needs a wine with structure, dark fruit, and enough tannin to cut through it. It's the obvious call, and sometimes the obvious call is obvious for a reason.
🔥 The Bottom Line
677 Prime has the real thing: a deep, well-managed list with a sommelier who knows it, in a room that was built to drink good wine in. The markups will test your credit card, but if you're already spending serious money on prime steaks in Albany, this is where you do it right.
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