Blue Lion Restaurant

You're in a converted historic house in Wyoming, surrounded by elk medallions and live music, and the wine list is... actually good? The by-the-glass program spans Italy, France, South America, and the Pacific Northwest without feeling like someone just grabbed whatever showed up on a distributor sheet. For a ski town where restaurants routinely charge Manhattan prices because they can, Blue Lion is playing a different game.

The list hits the expected Old World anchors — Italy and France do most of the heavy lifting — but there's genuine thought here. A Deux Vallees Chenin Blanc from the Loire sits next to a Gramercy Cellars Red Blend from Washington, and neither one feels out of place. The Sancerre from Domaine Curot is a legitimate pour, not a token fancy bottle. We'd love to see more depth on the bottle list and a few more adventurous picks beyond the crowd-pleasing Malbec and Bordeaux, but for Jackson Hole, this clears the bar by a comfortable margin.

Thirteen options by the glass is a solid count, and the $17–$24 range is surprisingly restrained given the zip code. The selection mixes approachable crowd-pleasers with a few genuinely interesting picks — the Chenin Blanc and the Gramercy Cellars blend being the standouts. There's no rotation program we can find, which means the list can get stale, but what's there is worth drinking.