Capo

The wine list at Capo lands on the table like a small novel — and we mean that as a compliment. Somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 selections deep, it signals immediately that this is not a restaurant that treats wine as an afterthought. The ocean is right outside and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is right inside; that tension is the whole point.

Italy and France do the heavy lifting here, and they do it well. Tuscany shows up in force with Biondi-Santi Brunello and Sassicaia from Tenuta San Guido; Piedmont delivers with Giacomo Conterno and Bruno Giacosa Barolo — this is not a list padding its Italian section with Super Tuscans nobody asked for. Burgundy and Bordeaux are equally serious, running from entry-level to First Growths like Château Latour and Château Margaux, plus a Château Rayas presence in the Rhône that tells you someone on staff actually cares. California gets its due too, with Ridge Monte Bello sitting alongside Screaming Eagle for the table that wants to spend its mortgage payment on a bottle.

Twenty to thirty by-the-glass options is a generous pour program for a list this size, and sommelier Mirco Pallotti's fingerprints are on the curation — expect selections that actually reflect the depth of the cellar rather than whatever needed to move that week. We'd expect rotation to skew Italian and Californian, though we'd push the staff to walk you through what's pouring well before you default to the Pinot.