Crow's Nest
10,000 Bottles Above the Last Frontier
Downtown · Anchorage · Steakhouse · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed April 11, 2026
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First Impression
You're 20 floors above Anchorage, staring at the Chugach Mountains, and the wine list lands on your table like a small encyclopedia. This is not what you expect from Alaska. The sheer weight of the thing — 10,000 bottles deep — signals immediately that someone here takes this seriously.
Selection Deep Dive
The cellar reads like a passion project that got wonderfully out of hand. Vintage Champagne from Salon, aged Togni Cab from Napa, Vietti Barolos with some years on them, Au Bon Climat from Santa Barbara, and Italian treasures that would make most big-city wine directors jealous — all of it sitting inside a hotel restaurant in Anchorage. The global range is real, not a token gesture: old world and new world both get genuine representation. If there's a gap, it's that the list skews toward collector-bait bottles, which is exciting if you're splurging and frustrating if you're just trying to find something approachable at $60.
By the Glass
Fifteen options by the glass plus at least two sparkling pours is a strong by-the-glass program for a restaurant of this style. We don't have confirmed rotation data, but a cellar this size suggests the glass list is curated rather than random. At minimum, the sparkling presence — including access to Champagne — means you can open with something worth raising.
Au Bon Climat Pinot Noir — null
In a list heavy with trophy bottles, Au Bon Climat is the sleeper that overdelivers. Jim Clendenen's Santa Barbara Pinots punch well above their price point and hold their own against the big-ticket names surrounding them on this list.
Cameron's Clos Electrique
Most people at this restaurant are eyeing the Burgundies and Barolos. Clos Electrique from Oregon's Cameron Winery is quieter on the page but delivers serious, earthy Pinot Noir energy that belongs in this conversation — and likely costs less than its neighbors.
1996 Salon Champagne
Listen, it's a legendary bottle and if money is no object, go for it. But at a restaurant with a steep markup structure, a near-30-year-old prestige Champagne is priced for the story, not the sip. Unless you're celebrating something enormous, that money works harder elsewhere on this list.
1998 Togni Cabernet Sauvignon + Certified Angus Beef Ribeye
A well-aged Napa Cab from a serious producer like Philip Togni has the structure and dark fruit to stand up to a properly seared ribeye without overwhelming it. The bottle's had 25-plus years to settle into something elegant — this is the kind of pairing a list this deep was built for.
🎲 The Bottom Line
The Crow's Nest is the most surprising wine destination in Alaska and one of the more impressive cellars you'll find at any hotel restaurant in the country. Markups keep it from a Rager badge, but if you're in Anchorage and serious about wine, there is nowhere else to go.
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