Fiola

You open the wine book at Fiola and it's like opening a direct line to the Italian countryside. 800+ bottles deep, organized by region, heavy on Piedmont and Tuscany with serious depth in both. This is a list built by someone who actually travels to these estates and knows the difference between good and legendary.

The Piedmont section alone could be its own wine bar — top-tier Barolo and Barbaresco from producers who matter, not just the Instagram-famous names. The Super Tuscan game is equally serious: Sassicaia, Ornellaia, and proper Brunello di Montalcino sit alongside deeper cuts from smaller estates. Champagne gets real estate too, with prestige cuvées that justify the Penn Quarter location. The only gap? For an 800-bottle list, we'd love to see more adventurous Italian regions (where's the Sicily? the Campania?) beyond the Piedmont-Tuscany-Champagne holy trinity.

20-25 pours by the glass is respectable for fine dining, though we don't have the exact lineup. Given the bottle list's Italian focus and the presence of a sommelier team, expect regional Italian varietals that rotate with the seasons, plus a Champagne or two. The glass program feels secondary to the bottle flex here — this is a list designed for people ordering bottles with their pasta tasting menus.