Firebirds Wood Fired Grill

The wine list at Firebirds reads like a greatest hits album from the mid-2010s California wine scene — familiar, crowd-tested, and designed to make everyone comfortable without surprising anyone. It's a corporate list done competently, which is more than you can say for a lot of places in this price range. Nothing here is going to make a wine nerd's pulse race, but it won't embarrass the table either.

The list leans hard on Napa and Sonoma, with Marlborough making a token New Zealand appearance via Whitehaven Sauvignon Blanc. You'll find the usual suspects — Caymus, The Prisoner, Meiomi, Sonoma-Cutrer — all reliable bottles that move fast in American steakhouses precisely because diners know and trust them. The 80-120 bottle range sounds promising until you realize the actual range of producers is narrow; it's more volume than variety. Old World wines are essentially absent, and if you're hunting for anything adventurous beyond California Cabernet, you'll come up short.

Twenty by-the-glass options is a respectable number, and at $10-$18 per glass, the pricing is in line with upscale-casual expectations — if not exactly a bargain. The glass list mirrors the bottle list: California-forward, brand-name heavy, approachable. Don't expect frequent rotation, but the selections are steady enough that you know what you're getting.