Drusie and Darr
Nashville's Most Serious Wine Room, Full Stop
Nashville · Nashville · American, European · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed April 9, 2026
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First Impression
Walking into Drusie and Darr at the Hermitage Hotel, the wine list arrives with the kind of quiet confidence that doesn't need to show off. This is not a list built to impress tourists — it's built for people who actually drink wine. The room is elegant without being stuffy, and the list matches that energy exactly.
Selection Deep Dive
Two hundred to three hundred-plus selections anchored in France, California, and Italy — and not the boring versions of any of those. We're talking Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Château Margaux, and Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet on the Burgundy and Bordeaux end, while Italy brings Gaja Barbaresco and Antinori Tignanello into the conversation. California holds its own with Kistler Vineyards Chardonnay, Peter Michael Les Pavots, and Caymus Special Selection Cabernet. The focus is tight and the execution is serious — this list has a point of view.
By the Glass
With 20 to 35 pours available by the glass, there's enough range here to build an entire evening without committing to a bottle. The program feels curated rather than catch-all, which is exactly what you want when you're ordering oven-fired pizza and a Piedmontese red. No half-price nights to report, but the depth of the glass program partially makes up for it.
Caymus Vineyards Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon — $250
In a list stacked with trophy bottles, Caymus Special Selection is the crowd-accessible anchor that actually delivers on its reputation. It's rich, consistent, and a known quantity in a lineup where the stakes can get much higher fast.
Peter Michael Winery Les Pavots
Most guests at a list like this reach straight for the Bordeaux châteaux or the DRC. Les Pavots is a Bordeaux-style blend from Knights Valley that flies under the radar next to those names — and it absolutely shouldn't. Structured, age-worthy, and often more interesting bottle-for-bottle than what it's sitting next to.
Opus One
Opus One is a fine wine — but it's also the most marked-up name on any wine list in America. At this level of program, there are far more interesting bottles to explore. You're paying a premium for a label that your colleagues will recognize, not for the wine in the glass.
Antinori Tignanello + Oven-fired pizza
Tignanello is a Sangiovese-led Super Tuscan with enough structure to cut through char and richness, and enough fruit to play off tomato and cured toppings. It's an unexpected power move on a pizza order — and at Drusie and Darr, that's exactly the kind of call worth making.
🔥 The Bottom Line
Drusie and Darr earns its Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and then some — sommelier Alicja Carter is running a genuinely deep, focused program in a city that doesn't always get credit for serious wine. If you're in Nashville and you care about what's in your glass, this is your room.
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