Coste Island Cuisine

The wine menu at Coste lands like a well-packed beach bag — more thought went into it than you'd expect from a Fort Myers Beach dining room, but it's not trying to impress anyone who reads Wine & Spirits. It covers the expected crowd-pleasers plus a few bottles that suggest someone actually cared when they built this list.

Fifty-plus labels spread across France, Italy, Germany, New Zealand, and California gives you room to move around. You've got Guigal Côtes du Rhône holding down the Rhône corner, Labouré-Roi's Pouilly-Fuissé representing Burgundy, and Loosen Blue Slate Riesling doing real work on the white side. Champagne goes three deep — Taittinger, Veuve Clicquot, and Dom Pérignon — which is solid for a beach restaurant but also screams 'anniversary crowd.' The California section leans on familiar names like Sonoma-Cutrer, Kendall-Jackson, and Raeburn, which won't surprise anyone but won't embarrass you either.

Glass pours run $9.40 to $14.50, which is reasonable for the market, though we couldn't confirm exactly how many options are on rotation. Based on the bottle list, expect the usual suspects — something Pinot Grigio, something Rosé, maybe the Fleurs de Prairie if you're lucky. No evidence of frequent rotation, so don't count on anything exciting swapping in seasonally.